underdevelopment
Noun
The condition of being underdeveloped.
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Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Karl Marx, Aimé Césaire and Mahatma Gandhi, they pointed out that underdevelopment in the global South was not a natural condition, but a consequence of the way Western powers had organised the world system over hundreds of years.
Noun
state of inadequate development
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much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry
(photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast
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underdevelopments