Thinker
Andre Gunder Frank
Andre Gunder Frank is central to 10 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2024 across Paper I. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
10Questions
2009–24Years tested
IPaper
1Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Andre Gunder Frank
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
unequal exchange 6development of underdevelopment 5core and periphery 4capitalist world-economy 3dependency 3dependency theory 3semi-periphery 3core 2metropolis-satellite 2periphery 2surplus extraction 2developmentdigital divideglobal division of labourhuman developmentmetropolis-satellite chainsmetropolis-satellite relationsmodernisation theory
Where Andre Gunder Frank appears in the syllabus
Every question on Andre Gunder Frank
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