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sundered

described the world as being sundered between "two poles or extremes [...]"

—p.79 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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encomium

there is the encomium to Iranian women for their buried labors

—p.78 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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umbrage

The First World took umbrage at the creation of the UNCTAD.

—p.71 Buenos Aires (62) by Vijay Prashad
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autarkic

This did not mean that every region should produce everything for itself and therefore live in a state of pure autarky. On the contrary, trade is crucial because some regions have smaller markets than others, and raw materials and agricultural lands are not evenly distributed along national lines.

—p.67 Buenos Aires (62) by Vijay Prashad
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occlusive

The development economists rejected Ricardo's occlusion of colonialism, and the reliance on strategies that freed up the First World to donate aid rather than rethink its own finan­cial and political dominance.

—p.67 Buenos Aires (62) by Vijay Prashad
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