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A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."
In semi-colonial China, because of the underdevelopment of science and technology, even some simple products such as nails, matches, colorful clothes, and soaps had to be imported from abroad.
Memories of Underdevelopment