The effects of world society on international poverty, 1990-2018.

Recent decades have witnessed a worldwide decline in international poverty. Conventional explanations of this empirical problem emphasize variables tied to domestic and global economic processes. This analysis provides an alternative explanation, where I develop a neo-institutional theory of international poverty.

The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990-2019.

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in debt servicing for developing countries. Drawing on the theoretical insights of dependency theory, I investigate the relationship between debt dependence and economic growth in less-developed countries. Results from two-way fixed effects estimation of an expansive country-level dataset on 103 less-developed countries from 1990 to 2019 indicate that debt dependence exerts a harmful effect on economic growth, net of relevant statistical controls.