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The Underdevelopment Curve: Structural Framework for Economies Stuck on Underdevelopment

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  • Sandambi, Nerhum

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The process of Underdevelopment is naturally in many cases causal, many Countries on developing world in fact they comproved this evidence, when underdevelopment are characterized as causal evidence, normally influence strongly the trajectory of the Country. On this approach, in particular, analyse for example some important factors that contributed, first to identified the stagnation on the Country and on other hand to analyse for example the main reason that keep the main Countries trapped on underdevelopment world. This approach in fact analyse the reasons that influence developing Countries to not get prosperity, the study for example, comproved that the Underdevelopment in many cases are causal, from some Inefficiencies that are for example prompted from inexistense of alignment of basics conditions and transformation levels that are normally needed. The study show for example, that natural resources not are effectively enough to introduce prosperity and not are enough to change the destiny of the Country, many on large majority Countries with high economic potencial quantified from natural resources, not drive respective economies to prosperity. On other hand, on this approach, the study provided the some important reasons that normally not are enough to contributed to guarantee high growth, in fact, exist many divergencies between countries that have many Basics Conditions and with Countries that not have, example between Japan and Venezuela and Democratic Republic of Congo, reinforce this relationship. In particular, the underdevelopment curve, show the mechanisms that are normally used from developing Countries, for example, exist some Countries with high levels of basic conditions including natural resources, on other hand these Countries are continuously trapped on underdevelopment. Some Countries such as China and India, follow for example the trajectory that was followed by Japan. From Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, countries continuously trapped in underdevelopment.

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  • Sandambi, Nerhum, 2026. "The Underdevelopment Curve: Structural Framework for Economies Stuck on Underdevelopment," SocArXiv buzq2_v1, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:buzq2_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/buzq2_v1
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