[PDF] The Political Economy Of Underdevelopment In The Global South eBook

Author : Justin van der Merwe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030050963

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This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development. Despite the entrance of emerging powers and new forms of aid, trade and investment, international political-economic practices still support well-established systems of capital accumulation, to the detriment of the global South. Global asymmetrical accumulation is maintained by ‘affective’ (consent-forming hegemonic practices) and ‘infrastructural’ (uneven economic exchanges) labours and by power networks. The message for developing countries is that ‘robust’ GBMs can facilitate human development and development is constrained by spatiotemporal limitations. This work theorizes that aid and foreign direct investment should be viewed with caution and that in the global South these investments should not automatically be assumed to be drivers of development.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136683879

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While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.

Author : S. B. D. de Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136856374

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First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality. Viewing underdevelopment as a problem in the non-transformation to capitalism, this analysis is in terms of the character of the dominant capital and of the dominant classes. Underdevelopment thus encompasses the ‘traditional’ peasant economy and also the export sector where the ‘modernizing’ influence of colonialism was felt. The book finally considers how the contemporary internationalization of capital affected the economies of the Third World.

Author : Mitchell A. Seligson
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781588262066

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Presenting both classic pieces and the most up-to-date arguments in the debates about issues of economic growth and inequality, this is a guide to understanding the causes and dynamics of persistent income gap between rich and poor countries, as well as rich and poor within the poor countries.

Author : S. B. D. De Silva
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Monograph analysing the historical background and economic policy of underdevelopment - based on Marxism, discusses the impact of foreign investment, the plantation economy and export sector, and the influence of capitalist social institutions and social classes, etc., under colonialism. References.

Author : Berch Berberoglu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780791409091

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This book focuses on the role of the state in economic development in a variety of Third World settings through an in-depth analysis of the past several decades. Berberoglu examines three major alternative development theories: developmentalism, dependency, and neo-Marxist. He then critically analyzes these theories and their variants to set the stage for a detailed examination of various development paths. Two paths of capitalist development are contrasted: the export-oriented neo-colonial model and the import-substituting state-capitalist model. The role of the state in each of these alternatives is discussed in the context of the balance of class forces. Berberoglu also provides case studies of Turkey, Tanzania, Peru, and India -- countries in which the state played a significant role in the development process. In each case, he demonstrates that the process of state-capitalist development inevitably leads to neo-colonialism. This export-oriented path ties Third World countries to centers of world capitalism, with all the consequent contradictions that such a linkage entails. The book outlines the class nature of these contradictions on a global scale and maps out the balance of class forces and struggles, the role of the state, and the resultant revolutionary developments that are part of the process of social change and transformation now under way in many Third World countries. Also included is an appendix highlighting the need for a class-centered approach in development studies.

Author : Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137063319

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This highly successful text has been updated and revised to take account of new developments in international political economy, notably the East Asian crisis, and the deepening crisis of African society. It also addresses recent forms of international 'management of instability' that are beginning to emerge as contemporary forms of imperialist globalism. At the same time, more attention is paid to the gathering 'mosquito cloud' of local resistance movements around the world.