Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies – serie
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The Spectre of State Capitalism
Inbunden, 2024
1402 kr
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The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from …
Disrupted Development in the Congo
The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus
Av Ben Radley
Inbunden, 2023
1214 kr
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Since the turn of the century, low-income African countries have undergone a process of mining industrialization led by transnational corporations. The process has been sustained by an African Mining Consensus uniting international financial institutions, African governments, development agencies, …
Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation
In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City
Inbunden, 2022
1373 kr
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Is South-South Cooperation (SSC) any different from other international partnerships in practice? While straightforward, this question often gets lost in conventional scholarship on SSC and international cooperation, which privileges macro-level narratives of how cooperation mechanisms fit within …
The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change
Av John Toye
Häftad, 2022
310 kr
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Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores how economic socio-cultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam Smith. Surveying narratives of how development …
The Aid Lab
Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success
Inbunden, 2017
1582 kr
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From an unpromising start as 'the basket-case' to present day plaudits for its human development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary world order, offering proof that the neo-liberal development model works under the most testing conditions. How were such rapid …
Developmentalism
The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism
Inbunden, 2020
1492 kr
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Why do so few countries achieve development success? Achieving development requires many changes over a short period of time, generating instability and risk. It is a deep and integrated economy of change involving force, strategic thinking, and ideological conviction - it emerges when successful …
Taken For A Ride
Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
Av Matteo Rizzo
Inbunden, 2017
1248 kr
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How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These …
Playing with Fire
Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
Inbunden, 2017
1148 kr
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Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets. Despite …
Taken For A Ride
Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
Av Matteo Rizzo
Häftad, 2019
794 kr
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How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These …
Inclusive Dualism
Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa
Av Nicoli Nattrass, Jeremy Seekings
Inbunden, 2019
1601 kr
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W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work. In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of …
Politics and the Urban Frontier
Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities …
Susceptibility in Development
Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia
Inbunden, 2020
1446 kr
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Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion. Development agents - people tasked with designing or delivering development - are susceptible to being affected in ways that may derail or threaten their 'sense of …
Going Nowhere Fast
Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality
Av Sabina Lawreniuk, Laurie Parsons
Inbunden, 2020
1276 kr
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Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges. Set within the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, Going Nowhere Fast sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? Inequality is often …
They Eat Our Sweat
Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
Inbunden, 2022
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Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption …
The Prosperity Paradox
Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer? As countries get richer, the share of workers employed in agriculture falls. In richer countries, hired farm workers do ever more of the work on the fewer and larger farms that produce most farm commodities.These hired workers are …
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
In the Name of Nation
Av Arun Kumar
Inbunden, 2021
1373 kr
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Drawing on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites, Arun Kumar discusses how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Going beyond the more familiar criticisms of development's entanglements with colonialism, Kumar interrogates the changes …
Business of the State
Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance
Inbunden, 2024
1402 kr
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As the world moves towards decarbonization and the race for clean energy technologies accelerates, states in the global south are increasingly called upon to supply critical minerals to fuel the transition. Business of the State details how mineral states might design effective growth strategies in …
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism
The Political Economy of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Av Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Inbunden, 2025
463 kr
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The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Capitalism is an unjust form of economic organisation; it is a culture of exacerbated individualism justified by the glorification of individual competition. …
Politics and the Urban Frontier
Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
Häftad, 2024
477 kr
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Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socioeconomic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to …
Taxing for Development
Contested Ideas, the State, and Commodity Taxes in Argentina
Av Matt Barlow
Inbunden, 2025
1733 kr
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The importance of tax collection for sustainable development cannot be overstated: it forms a central pillar of the UN's Agenda 2030 and offers a concrete pathway to finance development in an increasingly politicised and diminishing foreign aid landscape. However, the strengthening of tax systems …
Renationalizing Finance in the Global South
Developmental Policy Space after Globalization
Inbunden, 2027
1362 kr
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Why do some global south governments rein in private finance and renationalize their financial sectors, while others cede control over resource allocation to private financial actors? Following decades of financial liberalization, the state has made a comeback. Yet little is known about the …
Civil Society Knowledge Networks
International Development and the Globalization of Ideas
Av E. Fouksman
Inbunden, 2026
1300 kr
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Development has long been a field of epistemic debate. Where do the ideas and knowledge that underpin the practices and approaches of international development come from? Who generates and who promotes them, and why? Do ideas really matter at all - or does the practice of development carry on …
The Invisible Hand(out)
Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization
Inbunden, 2025
1461 kr
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The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization examines the relationship between foreign aid, market access, and economic growth in developing countries during the era of globalization. Despite the rapid integration of global markets lifting millions of people out of poverty, …
Marxism and the Marginalized
Struggles for Indigenous Sovereignty in Latin America
Inbunden, 2027
1402 kr
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This book provides a timely analysis of Indigenous movements in Latin America, examining how they confront the enduring legacies of colonialism and the pressures of global capitalism. Focusing on Bolivia and Mexico, it explores struggles over territory and resources alongside efforts to defend …
