The problem of development of Africa seems to be recurrent in academic research. Most often, it is analyzed from the standpoint of underdevelopment. Underdevelopment in this sense is understood to be factors that that have retarded the development of Africa following the pangs of colonization....

Iran is a historically rich country that has been through many conflicts with the western world. Although we would not consider it colonization, Iran was exploited by the British East India Company, a trade company run by the British Empire which went around the world and exploited many...

When citizens in a poor constrained society are very unequally endowed, they are likely to find it hard to agree on reforms, even though the status quo hurts them collectively. Each citizen group or constituency prefers reforms that expand its opportunities, but in an unequal society, this will...

"At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of COVID-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this book analyses the persistence and the structural underpinnings of underdevelopment in Peru. During the commodities boom of 2004-2011, Peru experienced...

Most recent cross-country analyses of economic growth have neglected the importance of physical geography. This paper reviews the distinctive development challenges faced by economies situated in tropical climates. Using geographic information system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence...

Juxtaposing qualitative as well as quantitative facts across the broader African continent, the authors explore critical issues compounding developmental woes of the continent at the present. Despite the facts being on the fringes as explanations to the sluggish development of Africa, the...

Achieving sustainable development has been the dream of every society across the globe especially sequel to the dawn of the industrial revolution. Thus, understanding the fundamental determinants of the socio-politico-economic development of every economy is of prime importance for investors,...

"This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed. The author asserts that Nepal's underdevelopment needs to be located in the...

Several researches have been conducted on the nature, character and causes of underdevelop- ment in Africa. Some scholars have alluded to the imperativeness of leadership in fostering de- velopment in Africa while some pointed a robust accusing finger to the structures of the interna- tional...

En este trabajo se propone un enfoque sobre las causas del deterioro ambiental que integra el análisis en distintos niveles de organización económica, con especial atención en el nivel de las políticas macroeconómicas y sectoriales. En la segunda sección, aplicando este enfoque en una...

Globalisation is a process which transformed the world into a single political economy. Africa is one of the continents that is sharply affected by globalisation. This paper examined the impacts of globalisation in consolidating Africa's economic and political dependency and underdevelopment....

"Why are some countries rich and others poor? Shaping the Developing World addresses the fundamental question of what 'development' actually is and examines social, political, and economic developments around the world. Andy Baker adeptly uses a threefold framework of the global North, the...

The ongoing political turmoil in the Muslim world necessitates an investigation of the factors leading to centuries of underdevelopment. This essay studies the various perspectives (for and against) attributing Islam as a factor holding back the progress of the Muslim economies. We critically...

The article is essentially a book-review of Professor Vijay Joshi's recent work, "India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity". In this critical essay, I take a slightly revisionist approach when it comes to a "typical" book review. For example, the length of this article goes well-beyond the...

After World War II only a few developing countries were able to catch up to real GDP per capita levels prevailing in developed countries. These successful countries in almost all cases came from Asia and did not follow the free market doctrine in the tradition of the Washington Consensus. There...

Kuran is an author well-known in the circle of Islamic economists for his relentless attempts to correct certain courses of development in the discipline. Although it is not necessary to agree with him, one can learn some lessons from his writings

Achieving sustainable development has been the dream of every society across the globe especially sequel to the dawn of the industrial revolution. Thus, understanding the fundamental determinants of the socio-politico-economic development of every economy is of prime importance for investors,...

South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...

One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the country, particularly in poor urban households. We thus use...

This world was not created piecemeal; Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. In general, Africa conforms to the general world-wide pattern of development struggle, but the continent so far has performed unevenly and is not yet up to the mark. The...

Generally, development can simply be considered in the context of economic growth and economic development. More specifically, on one hand, some scholars describe development as not only as a quantitative measure of a growing economy (such as the rate of increase in real income per head). On the...

The present paper is an attempt to assess the nexus between insurgency and underdevelopment in North East India. To achieve this end first various dimensions of insurgencies towards achievement of different goals in different states in the region are narrated. The impact of insurgency on...

Will Africa ever catch up with the rest of the world? -- Perspectives on development -- Underdevelopment of Africa in contemporary times: the links -- Afrocentric barriers in contemporary times -- Regionalism and development in Africa -- Is Africa ready for business? -- Laying the foundation,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Towards a Theory of Inflation in Underdeveloped Economies -- Chapter 3: Plantations and Rise of the Merchant cum Usurer Class during British Rule in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 4: Research Methodology -- Chapter 5: Results and Discussion -- Chapter 6: Pattern of...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Contributors -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction. Natural Resources and Underdevelopment in Cameroon: Untangling a Puzzle -- Natural resource endowment as both sides of the same coin -- Sharing from Africa's...

The international effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 has given fresh prominence to the idea of poverty traps, a notion that was widely current in the 1950s. This idea, most actively promoted by economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and...

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

The classic narrative of economic development - poor countries are caught in poverty traps, out of which they need a Big Push involving increased aid and investment, leading to a takeoff in per capita income - has been very influential in development economics since the 1950s. This was the...

This paper examines the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. We calibrate simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of development. We then use these models to assess the...

Journal of Development Effectiveness book reviews review new books on development evaluation and older books from other fields of relevance to our readers. Bill Easterly's new book is a meandering mélange of anecdotes, parts of Why Nations Fail(Acemoglu and Robinson 2012), and miscellaneous...