![]() | The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World Subjects: Steroid hormone industry -- Mexico; Mexico -- Dependency of foreign countries; International business enterprises; Underdeveloped areas -- Drug trade; Dependency; Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country's later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits. In this valuable theoretical contribution Professor Gereffi uses the Mexican industry's plight as a crucial-case test for dependency theory. |
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