analysis and giving culture a pivotal role in the dynamics of development and underdevelopment. This theoretical movement … concept of underdevelopment introduced in the 1950s, the discussion of creativity and dependence encounters an adverse …

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among … ex ante low-income economies. An explanation for this persistence of underdevelopment is proposed through an empirical … investigation that brings forth evidence on the importance of natural resource endowment type on growth or, more appropriately, lack …