Double standards in ‘Free Trade’
Wealthier countries in Europe make extensive use of import taxes to make imported goods more expensive and protect domestic business. […]
Global Development
Europe
Aid, trade and debt
How Europe’s Agricultural Polices Hurt Africa
International trade policies seem to benefit large scale industrial farmers in Europe and hurt smaller scale farmers in Africa. This
Book summaries
The End of Development?
A summary of The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity, by Andrew Brooks (2017) This blog
Global Development, Theories of development
The End of Poverty? A Documentary taking a ‘Dependency Theory’ View of Underdevelopment and Development
This 2008 Documentary seeks to answer the question of why there is still so much poverty in the world when
Global Development, Marxism
Dependency Theory
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.