, dependency, inequality and imperialism. These are driven to assign inappropriate weight to ‘political and ‘cultural’ mechanisms …This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate … framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July …

critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive … comparing PPP and Market Exchange Rate measures of inequality it shows that what really took place, in the closing decades of … growth, nor lasting and sustainable poverty reduction, were achieved over this period. The fall in the price of consumer …

This paper quantifies how much of exports from eight East Asian economies were consumed by consumers in China, US … firm-level database is utilised to get an accurate measure for such indirect exports. The main findings are: (i) US … Asia that were consumed by the US, Japan, other OECD countries, and China did not change drastically from 2000 to 2006 …

from developing countries to the United States boost demand for U.S. non-tradable goods. This induces a reallocation of U.S …

This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

Globalisation, far from meeting esoteric meaning requirements – everybody's welfare –, created the conditions for a …