Dependency Theory Is Best Defined As

Dependency theory is best defined as:

A) a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.
B) a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations.
C) a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies.
D) a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed.
E) a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control.