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Designing for differences: aligning incentives in Tanzania’s skills sector (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., van Huellen, S., Katera, L., & Jahari, C. Designing for differences: aligning incentives in Tanzania’s skills sector. London

The political economy of ‘scarcity’ in East Africa: a case study of sugar production, smuggling and trade in Tanzania (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., Mushi, D., & Therkildsen, O. The political economy of ‘scarcity’ in East Africa: a case study of sugar production, smuggling and trade in Tanzania. London

Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership? (2020)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Romero, M. J. (2020). Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership?. In J. Gideon, & E. Unterhalter (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280450-3

This chapter seeks to engage with the issues related public private partnerships (PPPs) to explicitly by unpacking different typologies that have been used to categorise PPPs. It develops a criticism of these typologies, despite their benevolent and... Read More about Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership?.

Review of 'Feeding Britain: Our food problems and how to fix them' (2020)
Journal Article
Fine, B. (2021). Review of 'Feeding Britain: Our food problems and how to fix them'. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(4), 893-896. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12403

Debt Management and the Fiscal Balance (2020)
Journal Article
Toporowski, J. (2020). Debt Management and the Fiscal Balance. Review of Political Economy, 32(4), 596-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2020.1841429

This paper presents a method for integrating debt management into fiscal policy using principles derived from the work of Kalecki. It proposes dividing the government budget into a functional budget containing taxes and expenditure that may affect ex... Read More about Debt Management and the Fiscal Balance.

Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme and the Rise of Social Assistance in Latin America (2020)
Book Chapter
Niño-Zarazúa, M. (2020). Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme and the Rise of Social Assistance in Latin America. In P. Anand, S. Fennell, & F. Comim (Eds.), Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies (547-572). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827535.003.0020

This chapter provides an analysis of the political and economic conditions under which Mexico’s Progresa (later renamed as Oportunidades, and more recently as Prospera) was introduced to prelude the rise of social assistance in Latin America. The cha... Read More about Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme and the Rise of Social Assistance in Latin America.

Situating PPPs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2020). Situating PPPs. In J. Gideon, & E. Unterhalter (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships (26-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280450-2

This chapter aims both to reflect upon the emergence of Public Private Partnerships (PPP), and the PPP literature, and to offer a means by which the significance of PPPs can be assessed. On the other hand, case studies across different countries and... Read More about Situating PPPs.

Identity in economics or identity of economics? (2020)
Digital Artefact
Kesar, S. Identity in economics or identity of economics?

What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system? (2020)
Journal Article
Gianella, C., Gideon, J., & Romero, M. J. (2021). What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system?. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1-2), 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1843009

Peru seemed well placed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a country that had achieved sustained economic growth and moved towards achieving universal health coverage. However, Peru has one of the highest rates of transmission and mortality world... Read More about What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system?.

Credit, Debt And Distribution In The Monetary Theories Of Augusto Graziani And Michał Kalecki (2020)
Journal Article
Toporowski, J. (2020). Credit, Debt And Distribution In The Monetary Theories Of Augusto Graziani And Michał Kalecki. Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 54(2), 311-326. https://doi.org/10.26331/1128

The Monetary Production Theory of Augusto Graziani provides a rich analysis of the use of credit in capitalist production, showing the endogeneity of such credit and giving new insights into the use of credit as money. The theory suggests a credit sy... Read More about Credit, Debt And Distribution In The Monetary Theories Of Augusto Graziani And Michał Kalecki.

Bringing Production Back into Development (2020)
Other
(2021). Bringing Production Back into Development. Basingstoke

Inclusive Green Finance: From Concept to Practice (reflection paper) (2020)
Report
Volz, U., Knaack, P., Nyman, J., Ramos, L., & Moling, J. (2020). Inclusive Green Finance: From Concept to Practice (reflection paper)

Climate-proofing the Global Financial Safety Net (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Volz, U. Climate-proofing the Global Financial Safety Net. London, Rotterdam, and Bonn

Although climate change poses a serious threat to macrofinancial stability and economic development, the global financial safety has so far failed to address this challenge. This paper reviews the extent to which the International Monetary Fund (IMF)... Read More about Climate-proofing the Global Financial Safety Net.

The G20 Debt Plan Does Not Go Far Enough (2020)
Other
Akhtar, S., Gallagher, K. P., & Volz, U. (2020). The G20 Debt Plan Does Not Go Far Enough. New York

Developing countries can emerge from the COVID-19 crisis and be prepared to pursue a green path to future prosperity only if their creditors adapt to the post-pandemic world. A bolder new debt-relief initiative rooted in global solidarity can help to... Read More about The G20 Debt Plan Does Not Go Far Enough.

A Toolbox of Sustainable Crisis Response Measures for Central Banks and Supervisors – Second Edition: Lessons from Practice (2020)
Report
Dikau, S., Robins, N., & Volz, U. (2020). A Toolbox of Sustainable Crisis Response Measures for Central Banks and Supervisors – Second Edition: Lessons from Practice

Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank (2020)
Journal Article
Dimakou, O., Romero, M. J., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2021). Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 221-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1839394

This article scrutinises the first four months of the World Bank Group’s Covid-19 response and reveals a persistent prioritisation of private over public interests. The Group’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, and its financ... Read More about Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank.

Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (2020)
Report
Volz, U., Akthar, S., Gallagher, K. P., Griffith-Jones, S., Haas, J., & Kraemer, M. (2020). Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery

China versus the US in the Pandemic Crisis: Governance and Politics Confronting Systemic Challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Lo, D., & Shi, Y. (2021). China versus the US in the Pandemic Crisis: Governance and Politics Confronting Systemic Challenges. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1839393

Because of its peculiar nature as a systemic challenge, the control of the COVID-19 crisis requires strong and rapid actions. It appears that China has employed a “tough model” whereas the erratic measures of the US have formed a “loose model”. This... Read More about China versus the US in the Pandemic Crisis: Governance and Politics Confronting Systemic Challenges.

Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy (2020)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A. (2020). Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy. In A. Oqubay, C. Cramer, H.-J. Chang, & R. Kozul-Wright (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy (369-393). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198862420.013.15

Technical change is a major driver of structural transformation and industrial mutations within and across sectors of the economy. We show how, by deploying different concepts of sector—commodity/product, production/technology, or location-based taxo... Read More about Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy.

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Ali, R., & Jamieson, M. (2021). Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 178-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1834362

COVID-19 has shaken a foundational pillar of global capitalism: the organisation of work. A pivotal dimension of such re-organisation has been the classification of work as essential or not. This article explores the concept of essential work using a... Read More about Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.