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The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.

Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making (2025)
Book Chapter
Mohamed, S., & Fine, B. (2025). Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making. In R. Herrera (Ed.), Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism (141-167). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020250000040010

In absolute terms, and relative to both hopes and potential, post-apartheid economic and social reproduction has been a disaster. A key element in explaining this is to situate it within an extraordinarily rapid and full adjustment, albeit with pecul... Read More about Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making.

Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems (2025)
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Stevano, S. (2025). Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems

The study of food systems through a gender lens highlights gender roles and relations in the production, processing, and consumption of food. The concept of “food system” has a long history, but its uses have increased significantly in recent decades... Read More about Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems.

Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry (2025)
Journal Article
Goga, S., & Roberts, S. (online). Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251344362

The geographic reach of multinational corporations means that mergers and restrictive agreements in one jurisdiction, such as in north America or Europe, may impact on countries around the world. We analyze the role of multinationals in shaping poult... Read More about Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry.

The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development (2025)
Book Chapter
Volz, U., & Aitken, D. (2025). The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development. In J. A. Mathews, & A. Oqubay Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development (295-318). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.19

This chapter discusses the role of the financial sector in greening economic development and the need to align finance with climate and other sustainability goals. Starting with a discussion of prevailing market failures in finance, the chapter makes... Read More about The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development.

Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity (2025)
Journal Article
Murau, S., Goghie, A.-S., & Giordano, M. (online). Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity. Journal of Financial Regulation, Article fjaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjaf003

Despite the significance of repurchase agreements (repos) in market-based finance, European repo markets remain underexplored. Drawing on monetary hierarchy literature, we make three conceptual arguments. First, we argue that repos’ balance sheet mec... Read More about Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity.

In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004723511

Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This Volu... Read More about In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass.

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)
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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?.

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.

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.