| Author | : Mitchell A. Seligson |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Pub |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781588262066 |
Presenting both classic pieces and the most up-to-date arguments in the debates about issues of economic growth and inequality, this is a guide to understanding the causes and dynamics of persistent income gap between rich and poor countries, as well as rich and poor within the poor countries.
| Author | : S. B. D. de Silva |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 648 |
| Release | : 2012-05-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136856374 |
First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality. Viewing underdevelopment as a problem in the non-transformation to capitalism, this analysis is in terms of the character of the dominant capital and of the dominant classes. Underdevelopment thus encompasses the ‘traditional’ peasant economy and also the export sector where the ‘modernizing’ influence of colonialism was felt. The book finally considers how the contemporary internationalization of capital affected the economies of the Third World.
| Author | : Charles K. Wilber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 634 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780394374994 |
| Author | : Justin van der Merwe |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2019-01-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030050963 |
This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development. Despite the entrance of emerging powers and new forms of aid, trade and investment, international political-economic practices still support well-established systems of capital accumulation, to the detriment of the global South. Global asymmetrical accumulation is maintained by ‘affective’ (consent-forming hegemonic practices) and ‘infrastructural’ (uneven economic exchanges) labours and by power networks. The message for developing countries is that ‘robust’ GBMs can facilitate human development and development is constrained by spatiotemporal limitations. This work theorizes that aid and foreign direct investment should be viewed with caution and that in the global South these investments should not automatically be assumed to be drivers of development.
| Author | : Amiya Kumar Bagchi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1982-03-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521284042 |
An overview of third-world problems, making use of Marxist and neo-Kiynesian methods of analysis.
| Author | : Robert H. Bates |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108944612 |
Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission. Bates addresses the political origins of prosperity and security and uncovers the root causes of under-development. Without the state there can be no development, but those who are endowed with the power of the state often use its power to appropriate the wealth and property of those they rule. When do those with power use it to safeguard rather than to despoil? Bates explores this question by analyzing motivations behind the behaviour of governments in the developing world, drawing on historical and anthropological insights, game theory, and his own field research in developing nations.
| Author | : Toyin Falola |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2013-06-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136683879 |
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.
| Author | : Jorge Nef |
| Publisher | : IDRC |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Developing countries |
| ISBN | : 0889368791 |
Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)
| Author | : Kenneth P. Jameson |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Developing countries |
| ISBN | : 9780070701892 |
Focuses on the complex problems and solutions of economic development of underdeveloped countries within a changing international context. This text offers a broad view of development, capturing the more inclusive political economy approach which examines the political and social factors.
