Part of the Hardware glossary: An adapter is a physical device that allows one hardware or electronic interface to be adapted (accommodated without loss of function) to another hardware or electronic interface.
What is dependency theory? A: Dependency theory is the way that the state of an economy develops as a direct result of external forces. Political, economic and cultural factors may influence the way that the economy develops using the dependency theory. Continue Reading.
Dependency theory was in the context of the decolonization movement in Latin America and the debate happening at the time over development policies like import-substitution; world-systems analysis was advanced as a way to argue the importance of seeing the world as one large and integrated political-economic system, as opposed to the more prevalent way of analyzing countries and regions as if they were isolated actors separate from one another, or from a global system.