For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Studies on societal path dependencies tend to focus on mechanisms that anchor and stabilize national trajectories while paying less attention ...

“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 ...

A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so ...

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 ...

A large number of couples arrive at the venue of a state-sponsored wedding reception at the Kano state governor's office after taking part in a mass wedding at the central mosque in Kano State, ...

Tail dependence is a probability-based concept meant to address the challenge of detecting and modeling the extreme comovements that can be observed in many real-life situations. Huge financial losses ...

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 ...

Jokowi is making a concerted effort to move his country beyond reliance on raw materials – and by doing so, drawing attention to a lingering legacy of colonialism.