Achieving sustainable development has been hampered by trade-offs in favour of economic
growth over social well-being and ecological viability, which may also affect the sustainable …

Sustainable development often leads to strong trade-offs, mostly in favour of economic
growth. Inclusive development responds by focusing mainly on the social and environmental …

Why, despite an emphasis on'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so
infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource …

The article argues for what can be called a 'relational'approach to poverty: one that first
views persistent poverty as the consequence of historically developed economic and …

Poverty studies frequently fail to address the underlying processes that produce and
reproduce poverty over time, preferring instead a descriptive focus on its correlates and …

This essay provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelationships between land
grabs, primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession (ABD) in the context of …

The aim of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of unfree labour in the
contemporary global economy, the processes by which it is generated, and its connections …

The neglect of questions of informality in the study of global production networks (GPNs) is
curious given the scale and reach of informality in the contemporary global economy. In this …

Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia–Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam–have transformed themselves …

The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of
the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of …