A major dependency theorist, Andre Gunder Frank suggests that the following economic activities have contributed to underdevelopment:
I Workers migrating from villages to foreign-dominated urban complexes.
II Forming an unskilled labor force to work in factories and mines and on plantations.
III Replacing indigenous enterprises with technologically more advanced, global, subsidiary companies.
IV Closing the economy to trade with, and investment from, developed countries.

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