UNDERDEVELOPMENT at Political Glossary

What is it? a condition in which a country has gone from a stage of UN-development to one in which it has become an economic colony of another state. Underdeveloped countries may be rich, but they serve the interests of the citizens of another state. (Contrast UNDEVELOPMENT.)

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