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Agrarian Change in the Lap of Neoliberal Growth: Field perspective from India
If I had to describe three central characteristics of the Indian economy—its three defining features in the neoliberal period—they’d be i)
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Exploring the Platform Political Economy of Self-Help in Africa
Informal savings group in Tarime district, Tanzania. Photo: Daivi Rodima-Taylor Self-help groups can be found in many areas of Africa—including
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Hierarchies of Development podcast
In collaboration with EADI and King’s College, London, Developing Economics has launched a new podcast on Hierarchies of Development. The podcast
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Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World: Q&A with Rupert Russel
In Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World, sociologist and filmmaker Rupert Russell travelled to some of the world’s
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Race to the bottom: Competition between Indonesian food delivery platform companies for cheap gig workers
The race to pay drivers as little as possible is underway in Indonesia. In this competition, the participants are platform companies in online
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On the perils of embedded experiments
There is growing interest in ‘embedded experiments’, conducted by researchers and policymakers as a team. Aside from their potential scale, the
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Remembering Ian Taylor
Last year in February, Professor Ian Taylor of the University of St Andrews passed away after a short struggle with cancer. Ian was a world-renowned
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Pressure to Succeed: From Prosperity, Stress (A reflection on aspiration in the new Kenya)
Wherever you go in contemporary Nairobi, you will find yourself confronted with images of economic success. Whether the suited and smiling young
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Max Ajl in conversation with Habib Ayeb on Food Sovereignty and the Environment
Max Ajl interviews radical geographer and activist Habib Ayeb. Habib Ayeb is a founder member of the NGO Observatory of Food Sovereignty and
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The colonial geographies of Kenya’s fintech boom
Digital and mobile finance applications have boomed in Kenya over the last decade. Mobile money, Vodafone’s M-Pesa system in particular, is
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Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom
It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector. For those who may be wondering what
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(After) Neoliberalism? Rethinking the Return of the State
By Ishan Khurana and John Narayan A number of commentators have recently suggested neo-liberalism is dead, or is in a process of retreat. During
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The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor
“Where do people not say, “I want to do X, but the circumstances of my life don’t give me a chance”? To this sort of common discontent, the
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The Nobel Prize winner that predicted a crisis between nature and capital
Since 1901, December has been a time for Nobel Prizes. Only in 1969, as an afterthought, the Swedish Central Bank established the Sveriges Riksbank
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Green financialization and de-risking in Zambia’s renewable energy transition
By Simone Claar and Franziska Müller Zambia’s has a history full of hopeful prospects and broken dreams. In the 1980s and again in the early