Scenarios about 'developing nations'
The classification of countries with lower levels of industrialization, economic development, and human development metrics compared to developed nations. Developing nations often face challenges including infrastructure gaps, economic vulnerability, limited access to education and healthcare, and may be working to establish stable political systems. Understanding the development status of countries is crucial in alternate history scenarios when exploring how different technological, political, or economic changes might alter global power dynamics and development trajectories.
What If Structural Adjustment Programs Were Never Implemented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the controversial IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies never reshaped developing economies in the 1980s and 1990s, potentially altering global economic development, debt relationships, and the trajectory of the Global South.