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It is often used for economic underdevelopment, and then means Poverty , including lack of access to health care, to drinkable water, to food, to education and housing. The concept of economic underdevelopment was popularised from the late 1960s by Andre Gunder Frank who studied the effects of Imperialism in Latin America . The argument was that that rich or industrialised countries blocked or deformed the development of poor or agrarian countries, by means of policies and interventions intended to protect their global power and superior position in World Trade . The United Nations also distinguishes between Developed Nation s and Less Developed Countries . The term underdevelopment however raises the question of what criteria can be validly used to assess development. In the mid-. SEE ALSO |
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