Carolina is using world-systems theory to research resource-rich countries that tend to send resources to the wealthiest nations, which then sell them back to those countries for a profit. She is studying what kind of countries?

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Gerardo Woodard

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1 October, 05:45

Carolina is using world-systems theory to research resource-rich countries that tend to send resources to the wealthiest nations, which then sell them back to those countries for a profit. She is studying what kind of countries?

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Lillie Adkins · Answer 1

Peripheral Countries

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Resource-rich countries that tend to send resources to the wealthiest nations, which then sell them back to those countries for a profit are peripheral countries.

Periphery countries are those which possess a marginal portion of the world's wealth, and are dependent on developed capitalist nations which has led to their exploitation.

world-systems theory tends to highlight the issue of global inequality among nations of the world