For decades, the global economy has promised convergence . The message has been straightforward: open your markets, ...
As a vehicle for the growing association of southern nationalists and Marxists, dependency theory is an important part of the history of our times, something much more than a school of academic ...
Theotonio dos Santos (19362018), who passed away on 27 February in Rio de Janeiro, has been one of the major proponents of dependecia or dependency theory, along with Andre Gunder Frank, Giovanni ...
“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 ...
Why is this nation poor? The answers are mostly framed by two paradigms in looking at the world’s economies: the modernization theory, the ideological backdrop to “development,” and the dependency ...
An interesting critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas - particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle - shattered by the events of the revolution. Also contains ...
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani announced Saturday the launch of a national development vision, stressing that the country "cannot continue relying solely on fossil fuels as the ...