Category Archives: Recent Papers
New article on microfinance in World Economic Review
September 14, 2012There is a new article on microfinance, co-authored with Milford Bateman, in the first issue of World Economic Review, the new open access journal from the World Economic Association. The article significantly updates our earlier paper, ‘The Microfinance Illusion’. You … Continue reading
Posted in Recent Papers |Incentives, Capabilities, and Space
January 25, 2012Incentives, Capabilities, and Space – The Evolution of the World Trading System and the Future of Developing Countries in C. Pietrobelli & Rajah Rasiah (eds.), Evidence-based Development Economics – Essays in Honour of Sanjaya Lall, University of Malay Press, Kuala Lumpur, … Continue reading
Posted in Recent Papers |Journal of Institutional Economics
January 5, 2011Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy, and history
Posted in Recent Papers |Journal of Institutional Economics – reply
January 5, 2011Reply to comments on ‘Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy, and history’
Posted in Recent Papers |Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared form today’s ‘development’ discourse
January 5, 2010Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ discourse in S. Khan & J. Christiansen (eds.), Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means rather than Master, Routledge, Abingdon
Posted in Recent Papers |How to ‘do’ a Developmental State: Political, Organisational, and Human Resource Requirements for the Developmental State
January 5, 2010How to ‘do’ a developmental state. Political, Organizational, and Human Resource Requirements for the Developmental State in O. Edigheji (ed.), Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa – Potentials and Challenges, Human Science Research Council Press, Cape Town
Posted in Recent Papers |Industrial Policy: Can we go beyond an unproductive confrontation? – paper presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
September 30, 2009Industrial Policy: Can we go beyond an unproductive confrontation? A Plenary Paper for ABCDE (Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics), Seoul, South Korea, 22-4, Revised: 30 September 2009
Posted in Recent Papers |The Microfinance Illusion
March 5, 2009The Microfinance Illusion with M. Bateman, mimeo, University of Juraj Dobrila Pula, Croatia, and University of Cambridge, UK
Posted in Recent Papers |Economic History of the Developed World: Lessons for Africa – a speech for the Eminent Speakers Programme of the African Development Bank
February 26, 2009Economic History of the Developed World: Lessons for Africa
Posted in Recent Papers |A debate between Justin Lin and Ha-Joon Chang on Industrial Policy
January 5, 2009Should industrial policy in developing countries conform to comparative advantage or defy it? Development Policy Review vol. 27, no. 5
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