Dependency creates internal structural dualism between internationalized and marginalized sectors.

Evidence

These general relations of dependency, they argued, had created internal structures promoting a form of what they called “dependent capitalist development” in those sectors, and among those classes, closely linked with the imperialist chain, while marginalizing other sectors, including the great mass of the population, especially the peasantry. “The differences between the internationalized sector and the non-industrialized or marginal sector are the direct result of capitalist expansion, and become a form of structural dualism” (O’Brien 1975). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 605

Categorization

• XREF: Structural dualism in dependent economies parallels the center-periphery dynamics discussed in other dependency and world-systems literature.