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Dependency theory is a body of ideas about the role of developing countries within the global economic system, about the nature of development, and about patterns of unequal power. It dominated much Latin American social science (including the analysis of the region's international role) in the 1960s and 1970s.
(databases) A subfield ofdatabase theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logicalconstraints.
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