Outside the major Western nations, the word "development" is often used as a substitute or synonym for progress. Both project into the future and celebrate science and technology as an outpost of civilization, both are confident of a destiny of ever-increasing improvements for humankind. As...

At least since the 1980s, development policies and narratives promoted by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been shaped by the idea that development could be better achieved if economic practice and social organization more generally were articulated...

The US dollar has been an integral part of everyday life and political-economic order in Georgia for more than three decades. Thinking and planning in two currencies - the Georgian lari and the dollar - is common not only for local companies and the government but also for households. The dollar...

Argentina began 2024 with the odd privilege of becoming the country with the highest inflation in the world. Although inflation has once again become a first-order global issue due to the impact on the prices of basic goods of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Argentinian inflation...