Places in the world unable to access new technologies cannot tap into the benefits of globalisation and risk further marginalisation from global trade (Castells, 1998). Does information and communication technology (ICT), therefore, contribute to marginalisation of least developed countries...

The volume offers an account of uneven globalization and its implications for human insecurity (Part 1) and regional development (Part 2) in Southern Africa. Poku details the implications of uneven globalization for human insecurity on the African continent more generally and Southern Africa,...

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...