This paper investigates the performance of fiscal rules in resource-rich countries (RRC). Using panel data for 57 commodity exporting countries from 1976 to 2021, we find that fiscal rules: (i) reduce the procyclicality of real public expenditures with terms of trade in oil exporting countries,...

The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and basic human needs satisfaction, gender justice, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Studying Dependencies: A Conceptual Framework from the Periphery -- Chapter 3. Development Studies and the Dependency Approach in European Research Networks of the 1970s and 1980s -- Chapter 4. Old Paradigms and New Crises -- Chapter 5. Core and Periphery...