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Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition (2024)
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Volz, U., & Lee, J. (2024). Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition

This publication explores how green investment banks to can help finance a green and just transition, making a case for strengthening their role and showing how international development finance institutions can help unleash their potential. It is cr... Read More about Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition.

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Stevano, S., Ossome, L., & Bargawi, H. (2024). The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(3), Article e12595. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12595

The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of ‘social reproduction’. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage‐point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boun... Read More about The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction.

Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument (2024)
Journal Article
Dikau, S., Robins, N., Smoleńska, A., van 't Klooster, J., & Volz, U. (2025). Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument. Journal of Banking Regulation, 26, 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41261-024-00247-w

Net zero transition plans are a promising additional instrument for prudential supervisors to assess, address and bring distant financial risks into the present. To date, transition plans have primarily emerged as non-financial disclosure requirement... Read More about Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument.

A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions (2024)
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Marois, T., & Volz, U. (2024). A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions. Hanoi

A new public climate bank with a focused policy mandate on climate action supported by international development finance institutions could help Viet Nam achieve a just transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Given the enormous and... Read More about A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions.

Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change (2024)
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Kraemer, M., & Volz, U. (2024). Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change

Many developing countries are struggling under a high sovereign debt burden and rising interest rates that leave little fiscal space to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Climate Accord. To enable these countries to invest... Read More about Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change.

The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century (2024)
Journal Article
Franz, T., & McNelly, A. (2024). The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 56(4), 1289-1307. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13049

The hegemonic understanding of the green transition will require a massive surge in mineral extraction. We contend that this entails wider, radical shifts in 21st century financialised capitalism. While there has been increasing critical interest in... Read More about The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century.

Equity in Financing Renewable Energy Development to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health—A Case of Rajasthan India (2024)
Book Chapter
Mishra, V. (2024). Equity in Financing Renewable Energy Development to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health—A Case of Rajasthan India. In P. Singh, & N. Yadav (Eds.), The Climate-Health-Sustainability Nexus Understanding the Interconnected Impact on Populations and the Environment (389-419). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56564-9_16

Financing sustainability is at the heart of international climate politics. Post signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the global South has laid out clear requirements for financial flows from the global North to address the climate crisis. There i... Read More about Equity in Financing Renewable Energy Development to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health—A Case of Rajasthan India.

Victoria Chick (1936–2023), a Restless Challenger to Mainstream Economics: An Appreciation (2024)
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Marcuzzo, M. C., Repapis, C., & Toporowski, J. (2024). Victoria Chick (1936–2023), a Restless Challenger to Mainstream Economics: An Appreciation. Contributions to Political Economy, 43(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae002

In this article on Victoria (Vicky) Chick (1936–2023), we intend to cover the main research areas into which Chick devoted her life’s work. We categorise the contributions into three broad fields. First, her work on Keynes’s General Theory and the me... Read More about Victoria Chick (1936–2023), a Restless Challenger to Mainstream Economics: An Appreciation.

Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement (2024)
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Zucker-Marques, M., Gallagher, K. P., & Volz, U. (2024). Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement

In this report we perform an enhanced global external debt sustainability analysis to estimate the extent to which EMDEs can mobilize the G20 independent Expert Group recommended levels of external financing without jeopardizing debt sustainability.... Read More about Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement.

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain. European Journal of Social Theory, 27(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241241800

Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and... Read More about Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain.

Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention (2024)
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Stevano, S. (2025). Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 57(2), 515-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13046

What we eat and how we think about food and nutrition are undergoing a momentous change, driven by the rise of ultra‐processed food. There is a growing body of evidence linking the consumption of ultra‐processed food to poor health outcomes. However,... Read More about Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention.

Review of: 'Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-operatives in the African Diaspora', edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sharon D. Wright Austin, and Kevin Edmonds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780192868336 (hbk.). US$40.00. (2024)
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Tan, K. (2024). Review of: 'Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-operatives in the African Diaspora', edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sharon D. Wright Austin, and Kevin Edmonds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780192868336 (hbk.). US$40.00. Feminist Economics, 30(2), 297-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2024.2334865

Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh (2024)
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Islam, M. R., Angell, B., Naher, N., Islam, B. Z., Khan, M., McKee, M., Hutchinson, E., Balabanova, D., & Ahmed, S. M. (2024). Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(4), Article e0003040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003040

Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the government. We explored the factors underlying this phenomenon from doctors’ perspectives. We... Read More about Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh.

Review of: Albert Winsemius and Singapore: Here it Is Going to Happen, EustonQuah, Luke NursultanIuldashov and ZachLee, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore2022. Pp. xlvi + 965. ISBN: 9789811229657 (2024)
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Booth, A. (2024). Review of: Albert Winsemius and Singapore: Here it Is Going to Happen, EustonQuah, Luke NursultanIuldashov and ZachLee, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore2022. Pp. xlvi + 965. ISBN: 9789811229657. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 38(1), 259-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12410