This paper argues that infrastructure-led development constitutes an emergent international
development regime whose imperative is to 'get the territory right'. Spatial planning …

India's electricity sector is in the midst of a transition that will have immense consequences
for its own development and for global decarbonisation efforts. Sustainability transitions …

With rare exception, political economists assume that developmental policies and
developmental alliances between states and business result from top-down, state co-option …

From the Derg's restoration of Meskel Square for its military parades and Meles Zenawi's
Light-Rail Transit (LRT) and condominium social housing projects to Abiy Ahmed's high-end …

Abstract There are over 5,000 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the world. About 75
percent of developing economies and almost all transition economies use SEZs in their …

A key characteristic of East Asian 'developmental states' was a strategic focus on
manufacturing, but developing countries today face more complex decisions about whether …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

This study systematically explores the agrarian questions of capital, labor and gender in the
fast-growing post-conflict economies of Laos and Rwanda. In both countries, export-led …

This article examines recent knowledge sharing initiatives aimed at promoting South Korea's
development experience as a 'development alternative'and questions the coherence of the …

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards,
while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new …