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A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services (2025)
Book Chapter
Peeroo, A., & Bayliss, K. (2025). A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (384-411). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.18

Mauritian drinking water services are in urgent need of investment. Yet, tariffs are among the lowest in the region, despite relatively high-income levels. This chapter offers a political economy analysis, drawing on the systems of provision (SoP) ap... Read More about A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services.

Can econometrics incorporate critical pedagogy praxis? (2025)
Journal Article
Balliester Reis, T., & Yoon, Y. (online). Can econometrics incorporate critical pedagogy praxis?. Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134251318391

Teaching radical economics requires a pedagogical approach that challenges the existing status quo. Most critical pedagogy studies in economics teaching focus on political economy, economic principles, and macroeconomics. We argue that critical pedag... Read More about Can econometrics incorporate critical pedagogy praxis?.

In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004721555

The Economics of Everything, or Economics Imperialism, now has a dominant presence in development economics, and an agenda-setting role in development studies, with the World Bank taking a leading, if contested, role. This volume examines how this ha... Read More about In and Against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics, Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 5..

Peer-to-peer enforcement among businesses to assure electricity payment in Nigeria: a lab-in-the-field experiment (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Roy, P., Tres Vilanova, M., Zarazua, M. N., Olajide, A., Animashaun, N., Adigun, H., & Thomas, R. (2025). Peer-to-peer enforcement among businesses to assure electricity payment in Nigeria: a lab-in-the-field experiment

Since its privatisation in 2013, the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) has been constrained by persistent inefficiencies, corruption and liquidity challenges. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have faced high operational costs fro... Read More about Peer-to-peer enforcement among businesses to assure electricity payment in Nigeria: a lab-in-the-field experiment.

GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain (2025)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (online). GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain. Innovation and Development, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2025.2468060

The paper contributes to the fast-growing literature on the structural dynamics of digitalization with a focus on robotization, and its heterogeneous diffusion and impact along and within global value chains. Specifically, building on an innovative g... Read More about GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain.

The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lo, Y., & Volz, U. The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders. London

This study investigates empirically the effect of disasters on capital flows, international reserves and exchange rates, and discusses implications for risk management and potential mitigation strategies. We define major disaster quarters as quarterl... Read More about The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders.

International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters? (2025)
Report
Dryden, A., & Volz, U. (2025). International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?

While capital markets hold great potential for mobilising the vast sums required for climate mitigation and adaptation, their volatility presents significant risks to emerging and developing economies (EMDEs). This study examines the role that intern... Read More about International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?.

Delegation of learning from multiple sources of information (2025)
Journal Article
Diamantopoulos, A., & Nikandrova, A. (2025). Delegation of learning from multiple sources of information. European Economic Review, 173, Article 104981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.104981

A principal delegates a decision to a biased expert. Before taking the decision, the expert may undertake incremental learning about the unknown binary state from two alternative information sources. There are no transfers but the principal retains t... Read More about Delegation of learning from multiple sources of information.

Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales (2025)
Journal Article
Cockcroft, T., Bowles, B., Taylor-Dunn, H., & Williams, E. (online). Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2455380

Police tutoring, to date, has received little attention from researchers and what research currently exists points to a system that is largely failing. The current research was undertaken in response to a range of concerns including those relating to... Read More about Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales.