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English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage: Parental investment and gendered aspirations in Nepal (2024)
Journal Article
Kristina Hultgren, A., Upadhaya, A., O'Hagan, L., Wingrove, P., Adamu, A., Greenfield, M., Lombardozzi, L., Sah, P. K., Tsiga, I. A., Umar, A., & Wolfenden, F. (2024). English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage: Parental investment and gendered aspirations in Nepal. English Today, 40(3), 219-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078424000075

The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan (2024)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2024). The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(3), Article e12580. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12580

Food systems—and the interplay between food production, marketisation and access—are constituent elements of the social reproduction of life. Using a social reproduction framework, this paper problematises the ontological, epistemological and methodo... Read More about The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan.

Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry (2024)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2024). Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry. The European Journal of Development Research, 36, 696-717. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-024-00639-8

Gas is a strategic source of energy and Uzbekistan ranks 11th in the world for mining and 14th for reserves. The article investigates whether and how the BRI and Chinese capital have contributed to Uzbek structural transformation in the gas industry.... Read More about Structural Transformation Through a Multi-vector Geo-economic Governance? BRI and Upgrading of the Uzbek Gas Industry.

The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation (2024)
Journal Article
Calabrese, L., Rhys, J., & Lombardozzi, L. (2024). The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation. The European Journal of Development Research, 36, 515-547. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-024-00644-x

Structural transformation is among the core questions in development economics, but in recent decades, the discipline has shifted its focus away from production and transformation in favour of analyses on exchange, growth and productivity. Yet, the s... Read More about The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation.

Untangling the nexus between marketization, crop diversity, farmers' wealth and nutrition: The case of Uzbekistan (2024)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2024). Untangling the nexus between marketization, crop diversity, farmers' wealth and nutrition: The case of Uzbekistan. Journal of International Development, 36(2), 1489-1506. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3867

The effects of marketization on crop diversity and dietary diversity is very contested. Therefore, more empirical work is needed to unpack the multidimensional factors that underpin these processes. This article expands the analytical understanding o... Read More about Untangling the nexus between marketization, crop diversity, farmers' wealth and nutrition: The case of Uzbekistan.

Contemporary Challenges and Future Perspectives of Structural Transformation in the Former Soviet Union and Its Satellites (2024)
Book Chapter
Lombardozzi, L. Contemporary Challenges and Future Perspectives of Structural Transformation in the Former Soviet Union and Its Satellites. In A. V. Gevorkyan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Post-Socialist Economie. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197621509.013.27

This chapter discusses the contemporary outlook of selected cases within the former Soviet Union (FSU) and its satellite countries to shed light on the regional outlook for patterns of industrialization. It outlines how patterns of industrialization... Read More about Contemporary Challenges and Future Perspectives of Structural Transformation in the Former Soviet Union and Its Satellites.

An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan (2023)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (online). An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan. Globalizations, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2221094

Structural transformation is widely recognized for being instrumental to the betterment of socio-economic conditions of low and middle-income countries. Yet, its transformative outcome is often conditional on the creation and distribution of surplus... Read More about An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan.

The marketisation of life: entangling social reproduction theory and regimes of patriarchy through women’s work in post-Soviet Uzbekistan (2021)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2022). The marketisation of life: entangling social reproduction theory and regimes of patriarchy through women’s work in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), 1870-1893. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1910063

Despite the important International Political Economy (IPE) scholarship on the impact of neoliberal marketisation on women in the Global South, the linkages with reproductive and informal work are often neglected, as is its interaction with multi-lev... Read More about The marketisation of life: entangling social reproduction theory and regimes of patriarchy through women’s work in post-Soviet Uzbekistan.

Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: The Social Reproduction of Households and Labour in the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Mezzadri, A., Lombardozzi, L., & Bargawi, H. (2021). Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: The Social Reproduction of Households and Labour in the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Economics, 27(1/2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2020.1854478

This article deploys a feminist political economy approach centered on social reproduction to analyze the reconfiguration and regeneration of multiple inequalities in households and the labor markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this approa... Read More about Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: The Social Reproduction of Households and Labour in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patterns of accumulation and social differentiation through a slow‐paced agrarian market transition in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2020). Patterns of accumulation and social differentiation through a slow‐paced agrarian market transition in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan. Journal of Agrarian Change, 20(4), 637-658. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12366

This article presents an analysis of contemporary Uzbek agrarian change. First, using mixed methods and triangulating secondary and primary data from Samarkand, it untangles emerging relations of production and exchange during the slow processes of m... Read More about Patterns of accumulation and social differentiation through a slow‐paced agrarian market transition in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan.

Gender inequality, social reproduction and the universal basic income (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2020). Gender inequality, social reproduction and the universal basic income. The Political Quarterly, 91(2), 317-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12844

Despite extensive attention being paid to the effects of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) on society at large, there has been little analysis on the relationship between gender inequality and UBI. The purpose of this article is first to reflect on th... Read More about Gender inequality, social reproduction and the universal basic income.

Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan. (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L., & Djanibekov, N. (2021). Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 62(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1744462

There is a controversial debate about what is the best public policy a government should adopt to achieve an affordable and stable supply of staple food for its citizens so to ensure food security. This paper contributes to the debate on the socio-ec... Read More about Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan..

Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2021). Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance. Review of International Political Economy, 28(4), 947-973. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1737563

This paper brings together the Global Value Chain/Global Production Network (GVC/GPNs) and the Developmental State (DS) literature to analyze state-led upgrading. By triangulating primary and secondary data on Uzbekistan’s horticulture value chain, i... Read More about Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance.

Social form, social reproduction and social policy: Basic income, basic services, basic infrastructure (2019)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L., & Harry Pitts, F. (2020). Social form, social reproduction and social policy: Basic income, basic services, basic infrastructure. Capital & Class, 44(4), 573-594. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816819873323

Proponents recommend Universal Basic Income as a solution to a trifold crisis of work, wage and social democracy. Synthesising Marxian form analysis with Marxist-feminist social reproduction theory, this article suggests that these crises relate to h... Read More about Social form, social reproduction and social policy: Basic income, basic services, basic infrastructure.

Can distortions in agriculture support structural transformation? The case of Uzbekistan (2018)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2019). Can distortions in agriculture support structural transformation? The case of Uzbekistan. Post-Communist Economies, 31(1), 52-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2018.1458486

The agricultural sector plays a strategic role in the development process of a country. However, the tools used to trigger economic development are objects of controversy in theory and practice. While neoclassical theory contends that state intervent... Read More about Can distortions in agriculture support structural transformation? The case of Uzbekistan.

The Nexus Between The Role Of The State, Market Transition And Food Consumption : The Case Of Samarkand, Uzbekistan (2018)
Thesis
Lombardozzi, L. The Nexus Between The Role Of The State, Market Transition And Food Consumption : The Case Of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

Although simple connections are often drawn between agricultural commercialisation and food security, nevertheless evidence is far more complex because of the context-specific and multidimensional dynamics by which market transition proceeds. This Ph... Read More about The Nexus Between The Role Of The State, Market Transition And Food Consumption : The Case Of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Are distortions good for development? Structural transformations and cotton in Uzbekistan (2016)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2016). Are distortions good for development? Structural transformations and cotton in Uzbekistan. Working papers (University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Dept. of Economics),

Agriculture is at the origin of all economic activities and thus obtains a notable position in growth theory. The contribution of primary sector to long-term economic development has given space to asymmetrical positions. In the current context of gl... Read More about Are distortions good for development? Structural transformations and cotton in Uzbekistan.