In the mainstream development debate during recent years, among others, there have been two influential camps opposing each other. The first one identifies the environmental context, the "natural" variable, as the ultimate cause that determines the socio-economic development trajectory of a...

How do international inequalities in funding, institutional support and research capacity affect the production of social science knowledge? New data on the political economy of research in Latin America shows that funding for social science is organized in sharply contrasting ways across...