Possibility of Global Development : The Chinese Case in the Light of Unequal Interdependence Theory

In today's world of globalization, workers in the core also consume a significant part of their wages on manufactured goods produced in the Third World (China being a prime example of it). This article provides an analytic framework based on unequal interdependence to account for this possibility and present the relationships between the output of the manufacturing in the core, primary production in the periphery and manufacturing in the periphery. With such a source of demand in the core, this is independent of primary products, the rate of growth of the periphery become untethered to that of the core