--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Mon-20050808/017174.html>). India and Russia being
> better off than
> China and Saudi Arabia is no refutation of
> dependency theory's claim
> on that question. If that's the extent of India's
> and Russia's
> capitalist development, that's nothing to write home
> about either.
>
I wasn't making a point about DT, something about which I know nothing. What I said was that the former Soviet Union (or rather most of it---Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Baltic States) has higher living standards than China, despite the 1990s collapse and China's economic boom.
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