type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p> <link href="#b2 #b3 #b4 #b5 #b6 #b7 #b8 #b9 #b10 #b11 #b12 #b13 #b14 #b15 #b16 #b17">Claude Ake (1939–1996)</link> is one of the most influential voices in African political thought. While nation building was an important theme in the theoretical literature on Africa in the immediate post-independence period, Ake offers a seminal treatment of...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Famine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars — economic, psychological and political — can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health. Famines are a hallmark of economic backwardness, and...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Despite robust growth, rising inequality is widespread in many countries. At the same time, financial instability and crises are occurring with greater frequency and severity. These two phenomena are related to the contest between labour and capital for a...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article argues that the rise of emerging societies is a major turn in globalization and holds significant emancipatory potential. North–South relations have been dominant for 200 years and now an East–South turn is taking shape. The 2008 economic...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This contribution addresses the question of whether growth convergence can be sustained in the global economy without compromising welfare and without causing major crises. It employs a simplified stock-flow analytical framework to examine the proposition that...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article gives an insider's view of the origin of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the aim of which was two-fold: to rescue the Millennium Declaration from oblivion and to expand the development narrative beyond economic growth. The former has been...</p>