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The Development of Underdevelopment
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For example, this article pointed out that most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations, and that most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands.Abstract:
We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this reason most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.read more
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Comparative Capitalisms research: the intellectual openness and political possibilities inherent to critical, global perspectives on capitalist diversity
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Liberalism, Democracy and Development: The democracy–development debate: old problem, new thinking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework for understanding liberal democracy and explored the questions thrown up during democratisation processes about what "liberal democracy" means and how and why a particular democratisation can be sustained on the one hand and/or result in a particular type of 'liberal democracy' on the other, they can now apply these conceptual tools to explore how this may help us gain a better understanding of the democracy-development relationship.
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History Seen Through the Slums: The Southern Question and the Current Crisis
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Resource Rents, Democracy & the Eight Policy Lessons
TL;DR: In this article, a model of rentas de recursos naturales was used to examine whether these rentas are mejor administradas bajo instituciones fuertes (or falta de estas), and of serlo asi si eso contribuye al desarrollo economico of paises with abundantes recurso naturales.
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Competitiveness and Pakistan: A Dangerous, Distorting, and Dead-End Obsession?
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