For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise your trade, attract investment, and prosperity will follow. Yet many ...
During the sixth session of the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo underscored the right of every country to development, which must be respected. As ...
Ever since Argentine economist Raúl Prebisch and German economist Han Singer proposed the "dependency theory" in the 1950s and 60s, there has been a heated debate between developing and developed ...
The perennial question of why some countries have achieved development through the elite consensus, and why Nigeria has failed to achieve the elite consensus but only registered the elite resistance, ...
How does Marxist dependency theory help rethink the contemporary issue of environmental degradation?
“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...
Resources including book reviews, Twitter lists, jargon explainers and blogposts aimed at people studying international development. Plus check out our World library and Students Speak series In our ...
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