Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Pope Francis, whose two-country “pilgrimage of peace” to Africa concluded over the ...

Kuru, a political scientist, undertakes an ambitious and, on balance, successful analysis of the ills of the authoritarianism, economic backwardness, and religious violence that plague 49 ...

The legacy of Gunnar Myrdal is in his having posed in very important ways two central questions: the explanations of, and practical solutions for, racism and underdevelopment; the relationship between ...

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In his book: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney, Guyanese scholar and activist, logically linked Africa’s underdevelopment to the exploitation suffered in the hands of capitalist Europe ...

The first two columns on this topic defined the nature of the post-1992 Guyanese oligarchy. We noted that an oligarchy is a small group of individuals who possess both economic and political powers.

The issues raised by President Paul Biya in his inaugural speech last Wednesday at the National Assembly are still making headline news in the country. They would continue to be food for thought to ...

“This is why (the growth rate’s) momentary impact has not been enough to offset the inertia of underdevelopment reflected in moderate-trend growth and in backward production, high unemployment, and ...

The growing corporate dominance in U.S. medical care has been a major factor in the increasingly inequitable distribution of health care resources and the declining public health conditions in poor ...

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren today indirectly blamed the Coal India Limited for underdevelopment at the panchayat level, claiming that the company owed Rs 50,000 crore to the state by ...