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 ...

The legacy of Gunnar Myrdal is in his having posed in very important ways two central questions: the explanations of, and practical solutions for, racism and underdevelopment; the relationship between ...

This article will discuss 11 Most Underdeveloped Countries in Asia by their Per Capita GDP. Poverty has become one of the world’s major problems. A lot of countries in the world are going through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You will be shocked (or not) to learn that the most underdeveloped countries in the world in 2018 are mostly located on the same continent — Africa, although there are a few underdeveloped countries ...

The UB Center addresses the challenges facing marginalized and underdeveloped neighborhoods, particularly Black communities. Through research and neighborhood development projects, it explores the ...

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the challenge of underdevelopment facing the country would only be surmounted when leaders imbibe the culture of putting the interest ...