Micro Credit, Macro Debt: The Industry of Poverty
Introduction The Industry of Poverty has many faces, as it manifests itself in every society on this globe, its effects are similarly devastating for the poor. What constitutes poverty? When is a person considered poor or low income? Is a person poor when he/she has to live off of less than one (1) USD a [...]
The Universality of Political Science Theory
Introduction There is an ongoing debate on the silence of social scientists from the developing world. Many people attribute this silence to idleness or worse, to the fact that non western scholars are imbibed by the ‘system’, by western thought and ideas. Both assumptions are ill-conceived and further from the trued, specifically when taking into [...]
Self-Determination and Modernization, A Utopian-Dystopian Discourse
Introduction In the early 1950s, two buzz-words determined the vocabulary of the international community: * Self-determination * Modernization Self-determination of self-rule attenuated to other more lofty principles such as sovereignty, and brought on a wave of decolonization, stretching from Africa, to Asia, back to the Caribbean and Latin America. In the wave of self-determination trailed [...]
