Underdevelopment

Synonyms for "underdevelopment" (12 found)

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Noun(3 words)
delaydevelopment delaydevelopmental delay

Related words (6)

Noun(4 words)
growth lagimmaturitylagslower growth

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cognitive delayeconomic underdevelopmenthuman capital underdevelopmentinfrastructure underdevelopmentlanguage delaymotor delayreading delayregional underdevelopment

Collocations

6 entries
economic underdevelopmentpersistent underdevelopmentregional underdevelopmentrural underdevelopmentunderdevelopment indexunderdevelopment policy

Inflections

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Derivations

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

How is Algeria fighting its way out of underdevelopment?

Source: tatoeba (9725373)

Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Karl Marx, Aimé Césaire and Mahatma Gandhi, they pointed out that underdevelopment in the global South was not a natural condition, but a consequence of the way Western powers had organised the world system over hundreds of years.

Source: wiktionary

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