All major economies have negotiated a number of bilateral trade agreements and, not surprisingly, the trends is being replicated also in the Asia Pacific region as China and Japan embrace the idea of linking the regional ...

This paper aims to critically analyse the impact of regionalism on African women´s citizenship, in order to identify key questions that need to be addressed for a deeper understanding of potential implications and consequences ...

The critical question is how integration and cooperative schemes are they fairing (or are likely to fare) under the "new" global regimes on trade? The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is our case study ...

This study attempts to provide a theoretical and empirical analytical framework aimed at buttressing arguments according to which electoral democracy highly contributes to the improvement of the welfare of populations in ...

This paper aims at discussing the opportunities and the threats that democratic regimes face today in southern countries.

The paper revisits the hypothesized direct linkages between two types of capital flows: external debt and capital flight. Do the linkages exist in the cases of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand? The results ...

In Nigeria, the state, which, ought to be central to the development and democratization project, remains as repressive, undemocratic and oriented to zero-sum politics as ever. The state does not really have development ...

The present paper states that the operationalisation of American strategies in the Andean Region - centered in Colombia - has exacerbated the problems of the region, which has resulted in an acute social and political ...

The promotion of an inclusive development and incubation of an indigenous entrepreneurial class were some of the key challenges that faced Malaysia after political independence from colonial rule and South Africa after the ...

Technology has been at the heart of human progress, and has been a key feature of human identity and progress right from the days of the printing press. Twentieth century technologies not only improved health standards and ...