August 2025 – Developing Economics
2 posts published by viveknenmini and mohsen during August 2025| Developing Economics
2 posts published by viveknenmini and mohsen during August 2025| Developing Economics
In the past two decades, global health governance has undergone a quiet revolution, shaped less by sovereign states and more by the growing influence of private capital. The World Health Organisati…| Developing Economics
Junior Researcher at Institute of Governance and Public Affairs, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. I can be reached at arif.novianto@mail.ugm.ac.id or arifnovianto92@gmail.com| Developing Economics
3 posts published by tingxulaw, jcoronadoarciniegas, and Arif Novianto during May 2025| Developing Economics
In June, 1,200 scholars and activists from around the world gathered in Norway for a historic convergence of two movements: degrowth and ecological economics. During the closing plenary session, I listened to three speakers, two of whom—Kate Raworth and Max Ajl—represented radically different approaches to our current crises. Though Raworth and Ajl engaged in respectful […]| Developing Economics
On May 7th 2025, the Chilean government confirmed a report published earlier that morning: Chinese companies BYD and Yongqing Technology (Tsingshan Group) had abandoned their planned lithium cathode production facilities in Chile. This announcement dealt a significant blow to the ambitions of a country with a longstanding mining tradition, now striving to build industrial capabilities […]| Developing Economics
The effectiveness of private equity has been a subject of ongoing debate in countries of the Global North. There is substantial evidence highlighting the extractive practices associated with privat…| Developing Economics
The International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) 2025 Global Rights Index was released on 2 June. The report presents a sobering picture of escalating violations of workers’ rights globally. Based on data from 151 countries, the Index reports that 87% of countries violated the right to strike, 80% restricted collective bargaining, and over 70% impeded union […]| Developing Economics
It has been more than a century since Ambedkar’s second disquisition in the discipline of economics was published; The problem of the rupee: its origin and its solution was published in the year 1923. Ambedkar was awarded a Doctor of Science (D. Sc) upon completion of the aforementioned dissertation from the London School of Economics. […]| Developing Economics
Working as a product designer in media for the past five years, I’ve witnessed the topic of “design ethics” raised at industry conferences, presentations, and meetups. Yet I’ve noticed that in our …| Developing Economics
The economist Alice Amsden’s work unmasked the dirty secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. For American defenders of economic liberalism and free markets, China’s rise has been deeply disorientating. Unmoved by concerns about […]| Developing Economics
Defenders of capitalism argue that cooperation is undermined by individuals’ tendency to take more from society than they contribute. The economist Elinor Ostrom refuted this idea, but without iden…| Developing Economics
By Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre The recent paper by Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty, “Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations” has gained substantial praise as well as criticism in a sh…| Developing Economics
What if the story of economic development doesn’t begin with the market, but with the household? And what if property, often assumed to be a static bundle of rights, is better understood as a dynam…| Developing Economics
In recent years, the rise of platform monopolies such as Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft has sparked a growing discourse among scholars and public intellectuals, many of whom describe these dev…| Developing Economics
The Gender and Trade Coalition was initiated in 2018 by feminist and progressive activists to put forward feminist trade analysis and advocate for equitable trade policy. This article is the third …| Developing Economics
Map of Africa from 1583 The default unit of analysis for many economists when dealing with national economics is the state. Yet, in economics textbooks ‘the state’ is often assumed to be a neutral …| Developing Economics
What does decolonisation entail in the context of economics and economic development? This question has become increasingly urgent for the economics discipline as it grapples with its inadequacy in…| Developing Economics
Just as at the time of Bretton Woods, international economic law is essential to discourage destructive national policies. But it is also vital to understand how law, regulations and institutions a…| Developing Economics
By Serena Natile and Joy Malala Over the last few years ‘decolonisation’ has become an increasingly popular subject in Western academia. Broadly considered the process of recognising and undoing th…| Developing Economics
When we discuss the climate crisis in economics, we are often confronted with a debate resting on technical solutions, emissions paths, and energy use: a certain amount of time to go from coal to t…| Developing Economics
Response to Thomas Meaney, “Red Power” in LRB (Vol. 46, No. 14, 18 July 2024) In the latest issue of the London Review of Books under the title of “Red Power: Indigenous Political Strategies,” Thom…| Developing Economics
Calls for decolonizing disciplines, fields, even businesses have proliferated. The goals and meaning are not always clear, but any decolonizing process necessarily entails deconstructive and recons…| Developing Economics
