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Chinese Investment in sub-Saharan Africa

Does the country deserve its anti-imperial reputation in sub-Saharan Africa?  “Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in

Cool Pickle May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Hans Singer and Modern Underdevelopment

Why the Singer-Prebisch hypothesis holds today.  Dependency theory, championed even today by development economists, had Marxist beginnings. In 1949, Hans Singer published Economic Progress In Underdeveloped Countries where he laid the groundwork for the theory. He and Raul Prebisch share

Cool Pickle April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

A Case for Foreign Development Assistance

President Donald Trump proposed to cut funding to USAID and the Department of State as part of his proposed annual budget, amounting to about 37% of the department’s total budget. Today, development assistance accounts for less than 1% of the

Cool Pickle March 22, 2017March 20, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Too Many Taxes!

 Sweden’s Interest Rates and Budget Surplus Sweden has a very unique problem. Businesses and households overpaid their taxes by about $4.40bn in 2016. This sum is about half of the country’s total budget surplus last year. The Economist asks what the cause

Cool Pickle March 1, 2017February 28, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Income on consumption of motor vehicles and vehicle parts

Time Series in United States between 1999 and 2015 This model attempted to derive an Engle curve for the demand of motor vehicles in the United States. Before addressing the results of the regression, we must define our variables. Our

Cool Pickle February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

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