A Preliminary Test of Dependency This article reports the results of a preliminary test of based on a statistical comparison of seventeen Latin American countries. The concept of dependency has been applied with increasing frequency to the development problems of Latin America and Africa, and a considerable amount of data related to the subject has been amassed from United Nations sources and from historical case studies.' For the most part, however, these data have previously been used to build and illustrate dependency theory, rather than to subject it to the possibility of disproof.2 In this study, we have attempted to cull from the burgeoning theoretical literature a variety of disprovable, bivariate propositions which we operationalized and tested in the Latin American setting.
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Kaufman et al. (1975) studied this question.