The article summarizes the development of development theory from its early economistic and eurocentric phase to the present more interdisciplinary and global debate, particularly in the wake of the so-called dependency school In this context a number of contemporary theoretical trends are distinguished and their relevance is briefly discussed It is shown that many of these trends take as their point of departure the dependency problem atique and the article concludes that the questions raised by the dependency school were and still are relevant, although the answers and remedies sometimes were less than adequate.
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