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underdevelopment

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. state of inadequate development; "much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry" (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast

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In economics, underdevelopment is when resources are not used to their full socio-economic potential, with the result that local or regional development is slower in most cases than it should be, specially compare with the investment and innovation in countries ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being insufficiently developed

Usage examples of underdevelopment.

The critiques of the developmentalist view that were posed by underdevelopment theories and dependency theories, which were born primarily in the Latin American and African contexts in the 1960s, were useful and important precisely because they emphasized the fact that the evolution of a regional or national economic system depends to a large extent on its place within the hierarchy and power structures of the capitalist world-system.

We forget that the overdeveloped world profits from the underdevelopment of the rest of the world.