John O. Ifediora. In natural resource-dependent economies the prevalent and common understanding is that the principal natural resource that…
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Richard J. Evans. There are more ways of destroying a democracy than sending troops into the streets, storming the radio…
The last 60 years have witnessed the accession to sovereign status of dozens of former colonial territories and the birth of the modern development enterprise, but also a rapid secularisation of Western European societies especially. Yet, at the start of a new century, religion seems set to be a major force in international affairs in the world for the foreseeable future. Its public role can no longer be ignored.
Development experts at the World Bank, and The Economist debate Professor Eric Maskin’s theory on the effects of globalization on…
Female genital circumcision is a procedure that requires the excision of some …
Anup Shah. Corruption is both a major cause and a result of poverty around the world. It occurs at all…
John O. Ifediora A common argument adduced in defense of Africa’s abysmal development pattern or lack of it is that…
A long-standing economic theory commonly known as “Economic Convergence” postulates that as world economies develop they would inexorably attain the same level of development through trade based on comparative advantage, technology transfer through direct investment and job out-sourcing.
Developing countries, since the end of the Second World War and the unset of the “Cold War,” have relied on…
The research by Carol Graham on the differential impact of globalization on various sub-groups that constitute the income distribution strata…