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Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

This book brings together 20 articles written by pioneers of international development, fascinating for their early challenges to orthodox thinking and bold in suggesting alternatives. Covering five key dimensons, each piece has a new introduction by Sir Richard Jolly indicating its impact on policy over the years and the enduring relevance for the challenges of our times.

The Last Golden Land? Chinese Private Companies Go to Africa

Published by: IDS

The widely-held perception of Chinese investment in Africa is that of large state-owned enterprises in search of natural resources.

Pruning India’s Sensitive Lists under SAFTA: A Comment

This article extends the economic rationale to prune India’s sensitive lists under the South Asian FTA as discussed in Taneja et al (2011), supplemented by additional reasons to develop well-functioning global production networks. The framework discussed here can be used for other SAARC nations as well.

China’s Private Enterprises in Africa and the Implications for African Development

This paper evaluates the growing presence of China's private business sector in Africa. Currently, attention focuses on China's...

The Global Financial Crisis: Implications for China’s South-South Cooperation

Published by: IDS

Rediscovering Redistribution with Growth for Poverty Reduction

Published by: IDS

A wide diversity of economic indicators, national and international, have shown a surge in inequalities over the last two or three decades, linked to the pursuit of free-market ideologies, to globalisation and to conditionalities which made policies of the Washington consensus a requirement for obtaining international loans.

Growth Diagnostics: A New Binding Constraint to Poverty Reduction?

Published by: IDS

This briefing asks: can the new growth agenda deliver on its promises for the poor? And where there are failings, what should be done?

Towards a New Social Justice Agenda: understanding Political responses to crises

Published by: IDS

Food riots across the developing world in 2008 sent powerful messages about the limits to people's tolerance of acute economic insecurity.

The Gentle Giant of UN Development Economists

Of the many economists who have worked for the United Nations, Hans W. Singer was the one who did more, and for more different parts of...

The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years

Published by: United Nations Intellectual History Project Series