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The Wall Street Consensus Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Daniela Gabor
The Wall Street Consensus is an elaborate effort to reorganize development interventions around partnerships with global finance. The UN's Billions to Trillions agenda, the World Bank's Maximizing Finance for Development or the G20's Infrastructure as an Asset Class update the Washington Consensus for the age of the portfolio glut, to ‘escort’ global (North) institutional investors and the managers
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The Re‐making of the Turkish Crisis Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Özgür Orhangazi, A. Erinç Yeldan
By the end of 2018 Turkey had entered a new economic crisis and a lengthy recession period. In contrast to the previous financial crises of 1994, 2001 and 2009, when the economy shrank abruptly with a spectacular collapse of asset values and a severe contraction of output, the 2018 economic crisis was characterized by a prolonged recession with persistent low (negative) rates of growth, dwindling investment
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Old Cycles and New Vulnerabilities: Financial Deregulation and the Argentine Crisis Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Pablo Gabriel Bortz, Nicole Toftum, Nicolás Hernán Zeolla
After returning to financial markets in 2016, Argentina asked for IMF financing in 2018 and defaulted on its peso‐denominated short‐term debt in 2019. This article describes this latest short‐lived cycle of external indebtedness and default. The Macri administration that came into power in December 2015 embarked on a path of financial liberalization, external indebtedness, rising public utility tariffs
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Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Anirban Dasgupta
This article analyses the role of peasant production within the larger process of capitalist accumulation in India. It engages with two distinct theoretical positions — Kalyan Sanyal's formulation of the ‘need economy’ which is driven by an objective of need fulfilment outside the domain of capitalist production, and Henry Bernstein's thesis on the irrelevance of the agrarian question of capital as
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Introduction: The Politics of Open Access — Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture? Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Kate Meagher
This introductory article looks beyond the conventional framing of open access (OA) debates in terms of paywalls and copyrights, to examine the historical processes, institutional and digital infrastructures, and political dynamics shaping the effects of OA in development research. From a historical perspective, it focuses on tensions and crises in the relationship between scholarly and corporate publishing
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Conceptualizing, Financing and Infrastructuring: Perspectives on Open Access in and from Africa Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Angela Okune, Sulaiman Adebowale, Eve Gray, Angela Mumo, Ruth Oniang'o
In the 1970s and early 1980s, parastatal and independent indigenous publishing houses were established in capital cities across Africa, but these emerging operations and institutions were quickly undercut by structural adjustment programmes; African scholars had little alternative but to turn to organizations and publishing systems in Europe and North America. Unfortunately, contemporary scholarly
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One Door Opens: Another Door Shuts? Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 María Faciolince, Duncan Green
This article explores some of the consequences of open access (OA) for scholars in the global South, centring on what constitutes their equal participation in the global circuit of knowledge production. Building on critical reflections by contributors to the ‘Power Shifts’ project within the From Poverty to Power blog, the limitations of the OA model are shown to be tied to a series of structural features
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Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Monica Berger
The promise of open access for the global South has not been fully met. Publishing is dominated by Northern publishers, which disadvantages Southern authors through platform capitalism and open access models requiring article processing charges to publish. This article argues that through the employment of bibliodiversity — a sustainable, anticolonial ethos and practice developed in Latin America —
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Erratum Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-03-04
In Pailey (2019), one of the references was incorrectly cited. The correct citation for the article in question is: Harris, C.I. (1995) ‘Whiteness as Property’, in K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller and K. Thomas (eds) Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, pp. 276‒91. New York: New Press.
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Open Access, Plan S and ‘Radically Liberatory’ Forms of Academic Freedom Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Samuel A. Moore
This opinion piece interrogates the position that open access policies infringe academic freedom. Through an analysis of the objections to open access policies (specifically Plan S) that draw on academic freedom as their primary concern, the article illustrates the shortcomings of foregrounding a negative conception of academic freedom that primarily seeks to protect the fortunate few in stable academic
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Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Frederik Sagemüller, Luise Meißner, Oliver Mußhoff
This study examines data on the worldwide use of the shadow library website Sci‐Hub. It focuses particularly on the discipline of development studies, taking a critical look at current practices in scientific publishing and their implications for scientific conduct in this field. In the context of discussions about open science, the data demonstrate that Sci‐Hub represents an existing network of open
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How Accessible are Journal Articles on Education Written by Sub‐Saharan Africa‐based Researchers? Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Samuel Asare, Rafael Mitchell, Pauline Rose
This article investigates the extent to which education publications authored by researchers based in sub‐Saharan Africa are published as open access (OA). We draw on bibliometric analysis of 1,858 peer‐reviewed articles over the period 2010‒18, together with interviews with 31 academics based in the region. Overall, we find a steady increase in OA publishing in the region over this period, although
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Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens? Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, David J. Allen, Bas de Bruin, Etienne Derat, Henrik Urdal
This academic thought piece provides an overview of the history of, and current trends in, publishing practices in the scientific fields known to the authors (chemical sciences, social sciences and humanities), as well as a discussion of how open access mandates such as Plan S from cOAlition S will affect these practices. It begins by summarizing the evolution of scientific publishing, in particular
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Open Access in Indonesia Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Juneman Abraham, Rizqy Amelia Zein, Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo, Eric Kunto Aribowo
Despite the absence of funding pressures that explicitly mandate a shift to open access (OA), Indonesia is a leader in OA publishing. Indonesia subscribes to a non‐profit model of OA, which differs from that promoted by Plan S. The penetration of bibliometric systems of academic performance assessment is pushing Indonesian scholars away from a local non‐profit model of OA to a model based on high publication
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Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Rick Anderson
Discussion of the ways in which open access (OA) and academic freedom interact is fraught for a number of reasons, not least of which is the unwillingness of some participants in the discussion to acknowledge that OA might have any implications for academic freedom at all. Thus, any treatment of such implications must begin with foundational questions. Most basic among them are: first, what do we mean
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On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle’: A Comment Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Vladimir Hlasny, Paolo Verme
This Comment responds to the critical review by Gilbert Achcar published in this journal (May 2020) which concludes that the protagonists of the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle’ debate exhibit a systematic neoliberal bias. We counter that Achcar's conclusion is based on a misleading and selective interpretation of evidence, false grouping of scholars and an inadequate understanding of the measurement of income
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On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle’: A Rejoinder Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Gilbert Achcar
This rejoinder responds to the Comment by Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme on my article that was recently published in this journal. The acrimonious tone of their Comment is regrettable, and its content reveals a worldview according to which issues such as income inequality and its causal relation to social contention are ‘technical’ in nature and reserved for debate only among ‘apolitical’ econometricians
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‘If You Fall, Stand Up Again’: The Moral Nature of Financial Literacy in the Global South Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Maryann Bylander, Phasy Res
Over the past decade a range of development actors have begun to implement financial literacy training in low‐income countries. These programmes have become a key pillar of financial inclusion projects targeting the rural poor but, to date, they have received little scholarly attention. This article draws on ethnographic observation of two financial literacy programmes implemented by microfinance institutions
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Trajectories of Hybrid Governance: Legitimacy, Order and Leadership in India Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Miriam Wenner
This article analyses the relationships between legitimacy, leadership and stability of hybrid orders in spaces of contested state authority. Complementing studies on public authority, the analysis builds on the observation that hybrid orders are often violent and unstable. The article goes beyond the one‐sided views of legitimacy that focus on the legitimating registers of non‐state governing authorities
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Diffuse Drivers of Modern Slavery: From Microfinance to Unfree Labour in Cambodia Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Nithya Natarajan, Katherine Brickell, Laurie Parsons
Over the past two decades, the global issue of modern slavery has become increasingly prominent within development thinking and practice. Efforts to address it largely focus on criminal prosecutions of immediate ‘perpetrators’, for instance those who are direct employers or middlemen. This article adds to a growing call from critical scholars to look to the structural drivers of such highly exploitative
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Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Rosine Tchatchoua‐Djomo, Mathijs van Leeuwen, Gemma van der Haar
There is a growing interest in localized land registration, in which user rights are acknowledged and recorded through a community‐based procedure, as an alternative to centralized titling to promote secure tenure in sub‐Saharan Africa. Localized land registration is expected to reduce land disputes, yet it remains unclear how it impacts disputes in practice. This is an urgent question for war‐affected
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Rethinking the Affirmative Value, Politics and Materiality of Waste on the Urban Periphery Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Tatiana A. Thieme
Kathleen M. Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 248 pp. US$ 25.95 paperback. Rosalind Fredericks, Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 216 pp. US$ 24.95 paperback.
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Regulating Over‐indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 W. Nathan Green
Cambodian microfinance borrowers are suffering from an over‐indebtedness crisis. In the past 20 years, the Cambodian government has implemented financial reforms that have commercialized the microfinance sector and promoted industry self‐regulation. Echoing long‐standing concerns about neoliberal microfinance, critics maintain that these reforms have hollowed out the Cambodian state's ability to regulate
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Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour: The Challenge of Assessing Women's Empowerment Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 Gregory L. Simon, Cody Peterson, Emily Anderson, Brendan Berve, Marcelle Caturia, Isaac Rivera
The economic empowerment of women remains a central feature of development projects worldwide. This article explores these empowerment aspirations by examining various temporal complexities related to two development projects in South India targeting individual cooking and fuel‐collection routines. It argues that three temporal considerations of household labour — polychronic time, collectivized time
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Unravelling the ‘P’ Word in Environment and Development Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Wendy Harcourt
Partha Dasgupta, Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 344 pp. US$ 28.00 / £ 22.00 hardback
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Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Joshua C. Greene, Solène Morvant‐Roux
This article uses an integrated social reproduction theory (SRT) framework to highlight the interrelation between all non‐wage forms of survival, such as debt, community and the environment. The analysis demonstrates how Mexico's unregulated industrialization and social housing policies have created new forms of poverty and market dependency. The article relies on a comprehensive literature review
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NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 David Mosse, Sundara Babu Nagappan
Donor‐funded development NGOs are sometimes portrayed as co‐opting, privatizing or depoliticizing citizen action or social movements. This much is implied by the term ‘NGOization’. Alternatively, NGOs can be seen as bearers of rights‐based work increasingly threatened by tighter regulation or substitution by corporate social responsibility models of development. This article engages critically with
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The World Bank's ‘Assault on Poverty’ as a Political Question (1968–81) Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 João Márcio Mendes Pereira
This article analyses the actions of the World Bank between 1968 and 1981, under the presidency of Robert McNamara, in the context of the Cold War and the directions of US foreign aid policy. It discusses the reasons for, and the means by which the World Bank led, the ‘assault on poverty’, with an emphasis on rural poverty. It problematizes the theory which supported this initiative, analysing its
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Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Minh T.N. Nguyen
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2018–19, this article analyses the changing composition of social protection on the ground in rural central Vietnam, including the recent spread of private life insurance among peasant families. The author uses the concept of portfolios of social protection to denote the emergence of an eclectic mix of measures to manage risks and to prepare for the future
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Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Tina Hilgers
In theory, security and resilience in contexts of violence and crime are improved by participatory urban upgrading. Yet, upgrading practices actually demonstrate how vulnerabilities to violence, insecurity and crime are reproduced by state–society and intra‐community power hierarchies. On the one hand, the priorities and perspectives of politicians and bureaucrats continue to take precedence over the
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Politics of Engagement: Gender Expertise and International Governance Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Özlem Altan‐Olcay
This article studies the experiences of gender experts in international institutions of governance and examines their interactions with multiple actors in the governance system as they negotiate their authority to act as experts. Moving beyond binaries, such as those on the inside of hegemonic institutions versus those on the outside, or co‐optation versus activism, the analysis uses processes of instrumentalization
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Situating Political Agronomy: The Knowledge Politics of Hybrid Rice in India and Uganda Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Marcus Taylor, Remy Bargout, Suhas Bhasme
The emergence of ‘political agronomy’ — a research agenda that interrogates the knowledge politics through which agronomic debates are constructed, shaped and contested — has added a new and important tool for the analysis of agricultural research and policy making in development contexts. This article seeks to advance the scope of political agronomy by providing an enhanced framework to link the analysis
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External Financial Liberalization and Macroeconomic Performance in Emerging Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Brazilian Case Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 André Moreira Cunha, Daniela Magalhães Prates, Pedro Perfeito da Silva
This article evaluates the effects of external financial liberalization on Brazilian macroeconomic performance from 1995 to 2016. Its main contributions are to assess the influence of the global financial cycle on the level of external financial liberalization and to analyse the short‐ and long‐run macroeconomic effects of such liberalization on the performance of a peripheral economy in the global
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The Evolution of India's Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Arjun Jayadev, Amay Narayan
There has been substantial recent interest in the decline of labour shares across many countries. For the most part, attention has been focused on developed countries. This article examines the evolution of India's labour share in its formal industrial sector from 1983 to 2016. Using two datasets corresponding to sectoral aggregate data and plant‐level data respectively, the authors document a secular
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Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Philippe Le Billon, Manoj Suji, Jeevan Baniya, Bina Limbu, Dinesh Paudel, Katharine Rankin, Nabin Rawal, Sara Shneiderman
The political economy literature on post‐disaster reconstruction tends to contrast ‘disaster capitalism’ narratives denouncing the predatory character of neoliberal rebuilding, and ‘building back better’ policies supporting market‐driven reconstruction. This article seeks to provide a more nuanced account, developing the concept of ‘disaster financialization’ through a case study of household‐level
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Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-06-21 Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz, Mike Morris
This article examines whether low‐income countries can still benefit from participating in manufacturing global value chains (GVCs) in terms of broader industrial development in a global context of greater competition and higher requirements. It contends that developing internationally competitive local firms and domestic linkages, in addition to upgrading, is crucial for participation in GVCs to drive
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Waste Political Settlements in Colombia and Chile: Power, Inequality and Informality in Recycling Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Nicolás Valenzuela‐Levi
There are stark differences between the waste recycling literature from the global North and that from the global South. The literature from the global North tends to focus on empirical analyses of existing municipal recycling services and rarely considers institutional factors. When it does, the theoretical approaches adopted are limited, especially regarding the role of informal institutions. In
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Project Narratives: Investigating Participatory Conservation in the Peruvian Andes Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Katarzyna Cieslik, Art Dewulf, Wouter Buytaert
This article shares findings from a participatory assessment study of a community‐based environmental monitoring project in the Peruvian Andes. The objective of the project was to generate evidence to support sustainable livelihoods through participatory knowledge generation. With the use of narrative framing, the study retrospectively reconstructs the project's trajectory as perceived by the three
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Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
This article evaluates the relevance of dependency theory for understanding contemporary development challenges, especially in the light of changes in the global economy over the past 50 years. In order to do so, the article rectifies previous misunderstandings of the scholarship and offers a new definition of dependency theory as a research programme, rather than a singular theory. Four core tenets
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Betting on Potatoes: Accumulation in Times of Agrarian Crisis in Punjab, India Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Shreya Sinha
Despite the widespread consensus that neoliberal India is reeling under an overarching agrarian crisis, this article argues that at least some capitalist farmers are continuing to accumulate and are thereby contributing to the process of class differentiation. Through a study of potato‐growing capitalist farmers in Punjab, the archetypal Green Revolution state of India, the author shows that such farmers
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‘In This Profession We Eat Dust’: Informal and Formal Solidarity among Women Urban Transportation Workers in Nepal Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-04-14 Barbara Grossman‐Thompson
This article considers the working lives of women who drive electric rickshaws, known as tempos, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines drivers’ precarious working conditions and the strategies they use in an effort to secure better conditions and job security. This case study illuminates the particulars of women tempo drivers’ day‐to‐day experiences and also speaks
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Risk, Envy and Magic in the Artisanal Mining Sector of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten
Scholars largely agree that witchcraft beliefs in sub‐Saharan Africa remain virulent. The ‘modernity of witchcraft’ is said to thrive on friction between the local moral economy and new socio‐economic realities. This article focuses on the appeal of witchcraft beliefs in the artisanal mining sector of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. It argues that the ‘do‐or‐die’, ‘zero‐sum’ and ‘caught‐in‐the‐middle’
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On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle’: The Case of Egypt Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Gilbert Achcar
This article surveys and discusses prominent protagonists of the debate on socio‐economic inequality in the Arab region, with a special focus on the World Bank and Egypt. According to official data, the region holds remarkably low Gini coefficients in a context of declining inequality. This contradicts the popular perception of high social inequality as a major cause of regional protests since the
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Bastard Spice or Champagne of Cinnamon? Conflicting Value Creations along Cinnamon Commodity Chains in Northern Vietnam Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Annuska Derks, Sarah Turner, Ngô Thúy Hạnh
In upland northern Vietnam ethnic minority farmers are cultivating what some global retailers refer to as the ‘champagne of cinnamon’. However, a closer examination reveals that this spice is not ‘true cinnamon’ but cassia, with the exact species remaining uncertain. Drawing on commodity chain literature and debates over the creation of value and quality, the aims of this article are twofold. First
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The Moral Politics of Gendered Labour in Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-03-05 Blair Rutherford
Drawing on current anthropological approaches to labour, this article examines some of the moral politics mobilized around women and artisanal mining in policy‐inflected scholarship with reference to particular gold mining zones in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone. In so doing, the article proposes that such a focus on labour not only allows one to appreciate how sentiments concerning (im)proper behaviour
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The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States: A Comparative Analysis of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-03-05 Anindita Adhikari, Vasudha Chhotray
This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral‐rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development
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Buyer Engagement and Labour Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Bangladesh Accord and Beyond Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 Chikako Oka, Niklas Egels‐Zandén, Rachel Alexander
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (‘the Accord’) has received both praise and criticism concerning its implications for corporate responsibility and power. This article contributes to the debate by situating the Accord within a broader set of activities that buyers are engaged in to promote better labour conditions in their supply chains. The authors identify three approaches of
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Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual? Workers’ Views on Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Bangladesh Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 Naila Kabeer, Lopita Huq, Munshi Sulaiman
The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future disasters and to acknowledge that business as usual was not an option. Prominent in these efforts were the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (hereafter the Accord) and
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Contested Understandings in the Global Garment Industry after Rana Plaza Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 Sarah Ashwin, Naila Kabeer, Elke Schüßler
This Introduction synthesizes the key themes of this special cluster of articles and explores the implications of the three contributions on garment supply chains after the Rana Plaza disaster. The three articles examine the perspectives of key stakeholders in garment value chains — global buyers, managers of garment factories in Bangladesh, and workers at these factories — and analyses their responses
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Multi‐actor Initiatives after Rana Plaza: Factory Managers’ Views Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-23 Shahidur Rahman, Kazi Mahmudur Rahman
The Rana Plaza factory disaster in April 2013, which resulted in the death of a large number of factory workers and injured many more in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry, highlighted the sustained failure of the government of Bangladesh to address safety in the workplace. In the wake of the tragedy two significant transnational governance initiatives emerged — the Accord on Fire and Building
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Social Policy and Political Mobilization in India: Producing Hierarchical Fraternity and Polarized Differences Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Ajay Gudavarthy, G. Vijay
This article attempts to decode the ways in which social policy that has essentially developmental and welfare imperatives is being used to pursue an exclusivist‐authoritarian right‐wing agenda in India under Narendra Modi. The authors highlight a contradistinction between the previous United Progressive Alliance regime led by the Congress Party and the current National Democratic Alliance regime led
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New Developmentalism and its Discontents: State Activism in Modi's Gujarat and India Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Elizabeth Chatterjee
Regimes around the world are experimenting with combinations of economic liberalization and revived state‐activist strategies, producing ‘new developmentalist’ hybrids. This article suggests that a distinctive variant of new developmentalism is emerging in India. Its paradigmatic example crystallized in Gujarat, before and during Narendra Modi's tenure as Chief Minister (2001–14), and was taken national
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Assessing Conservative Populism: A New Double Movement or Neoliberal Populism? Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Ray Kiely
This article examines the populist turn through the lens of changing social policy by relating this to the question of whether or not conservative and far‐right populism represent a break from, or a new mutation of, neoliberalism. Does this shift represent a conservative Polanyian double movement, or a mutation and extension of neoliberalism? This question is examined through a brief account of neoliberalism's
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The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Andrew M. Fischer
This Forum Debate explores the confluence of neoliberal, populist, conservative and reactionary influences on contemporary ideologies and practices of social policy, with a focus on the poorer peripheries of global capitalism. Several fundamental tensions are highlighted, which are largely overlooked by the social policy and development literatures. First, many recent social policy innovations have
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Beyond Reintegration: War Veteranship in Mozambique and El Salvador Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels
This article proposes the concept of ‘war veteranship’ to better understand war veterans’ positioning in and engagement with post‐war societies and state‐building processes. The study is based on ethnographic research with former insurgent movements, specifically the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) in Mozambique and the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) in El Salvador. The
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Social Policy, Inequalities and the Battle of Rights in Latin America Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-01-11 Pia Riggirozzi
Targeted social policies and other more universal forms of social protection have shaped (the shifts in) the politics of popular support in Latin America. Since the early 2000s this has led to a tendency towards the election of left‐leaning governments, stimulating stronger political pressure for more extensive redistribution. Yet despite a wide range of cash transfers, subsidies and other social policies
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Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-01-11 Charmaine G. Ramos
This article explores social policy reforms championed by the Philippines’ strongman president Rodrigo Duterte during his first three years in office (2016–19), as a case for examining the transformative potential of social policy expansion under rising new right‐wing and authoritarian leaders. By showing how political economy and historico‐institutional conditions foreclose the transformative possibilities
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Industrial Policy in the 21st Century Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-01-11 Ha‐Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni
Industrial policy is back at the centre stage of policy debate, while the world is undergoing dramatic transformations. This article contributes to the debate by developing a new theory of industrial policy, incorporating some issues that have been neglected so far and taking into account the recent changes in economic reality. The authors explore how the incorporation of some of the neglected issues
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Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa: Don't Call Dog Monkey for Me Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-01-11 Jimi O. Adesina
The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into ‘don't sell me a dummy’. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in the African context. The transformation of the African public policy landscape, shaped by the ‘counter‐revolution’ in development thinking, has taken a new form with the donor ‘policy merchandising’ of cash transfer
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Politics of Social Policy in a Late Industrializing Country: The Case of Turkey Development and Change (IF 2.246) Pub Date : 2020-01-11 Ayşe Buğra
This article approaches social policy as an integral component of a capitalist society and, by drawing on the notion of the double movement introduced by Karl Polanyi, argues that social policy intervention both limits and contributes to market expansion. While this argument could be generally applied to recent social policy changes in the current context of economic globalization, these changes were
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