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backwardness
n. tardiness, retardation, underdevelopment

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Backwardness
Not to be confused with Cultural backwardness
The backwardness model is a theory of economic growth created by Alexander Gerschenkron. The model postulates that the more backward an economy is at the outset of economic development, the more likely certain conditions are to occur.  USSR leader Gorbachev once said, “If you don’t move forward, sooner or later you begin to move backward.”

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backwardness

Noun
1. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
(synonym) retardation, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality
(hypernym) stupidity
(hyponym) abnormality, mental defectiveness


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Backwardness
(n.)
The state of being backward.
  

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backwardness
n.
1. unwillingness
بد دلي , ناراضگي
2. slowness
سستي , ڈھيل
3. being behind
پيچھے ہونا يا رہنا