Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Pope Francis, whose two-country “pilgrimage of peace” to Africa concluded over the ...

Though much of the current discussion about global imbalances focuses on the swelling current account deficit in the U.S., the other side of this imbalance itself presents a puzzle. Specifically, the ...

Jair Bolsonaro (L), President of Brazil, holds the arm of Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina, during the opening ceremony of the Mercosur Summit. With the demise of the import substitution ...

In his book: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney, Guyanese scholar and activist, logically linked Africa’s underdevelopment to the exploitation suffered in the hands of capitalist Europe ...

A member of Havana's elite copes with Castro's revolution in Tomas Gutierrez Alea's introspective drama 'Memories of Underdevelopment.' By THR Staff 2018 likely will see more than the usual number of ...

UP’s political economy has been a product of an interplay of demand and supply, starting from colonial times, and whose legacies continue to still linger. There is a popular narrative that tends to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Among the largest university presses in the world, The MIT Press publishes over 200 new books each year along with 30 journals in the arts and ...

‘The Americans really know how to do things,’ the central character thinks in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), now available in an elegant new print. He is a Cuban living in ...