How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in...

Unmittelbar nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg haben sich mit der Urbanisierung in den Ländern der Dritten Welt neue Formen der Subsistenzwirtschaft entwickelt. Die Diskussion im Zusammenhang mit diesen postkolonialen Formen der Substistenzwirtschaft wird kontrovers geführt. Während einige Autoren...

This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time periods, and remains low. Whereas pass-through effects where high and close to 1 in the high-inflation period, they seem to have fallen to around 0.2 after the Real Plan...