Recent Papers
I have a new paper on Asian industrialisation over the last five decades, published as a working paper from WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), Helsinki.
I have a new paper, titled, 'Industrial Development in Asia - Trends in Industrialisation and Industrial Policy Experiences of Developing Asia', published as a working paper from WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), Helsinki. It is co-authored with Kiryl Zach. You can download it from here (Chang Zach WIDER working paper)
'Bringing production and employment back into development' with Antonio Andreoni
A major report for the UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)
I have co-authored (with Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan) a major report for the UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa), Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa. The report can be downloaded from here.
New article on microfinance in World Economic Review
There 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 can download the whole journal issue from here.
Incentives, Capabilities, and Space
in C. Pietrobelli & Rajah Rasiah (eds.), Evidence-based Development Economics – Essays in Honour of Sanjaya Lall, University of Malay Press, Kuala Lumpur, forthcoming (2012)
Journal of Institutional Economics
Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy, and history
Journal of Institutional Economics - reply
Reply to comments on ‘Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy, and history’
Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared form today's 'development' discourse
in S. Khan & J. Christiansen (eds.), Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means rather than Master, Routledge, Abingdon
How to 'do' a Developmental State: Political, Organisational, 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
Industrial Policy: Can we go beyond an unproductive confrontation? - paper presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
Industrial 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