{"title":"Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins by Max Gallien, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, xiv + 346 pp.","authors":"Florian Weigand","doi":"10.1111/deve.12438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 2","pages":"212-215"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State by Yingyao Wang, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, vi + 291 pp.","authors":"Muyang Chen","doi":"10.1111/deve.12435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 2","pages":"215-218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143896835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad by Alissa Walter, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2025, xvi + 332 pp.","authors":"Austin J. Knuppe","doi":"10.1111/deve.12436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12436","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 2","pages":"209-212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity Matters in the World of Finance: Does Ethnic and Religious Diversity Hinder Financial Development in Developing Countries?","authors":"Saqib Amin, Syed Mansoob Murshed","doi":"10.1111/deve.12434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12434","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates the relationship between ethnic and religious diversity (<i>ED</i> and <i>RD</i>) and financial development using the data from 102 developing countries. It is widely accepted that financial depth and the more ready availability of finance have a central role to play in fostering economic growth. We hypothesize that financial development in developing countries, especially those at the early stages of economic development, may be retarded by preexisting <i>ED</i> and <i>RD</i>, which may produce conflict. However, we believe that this risk can be moderated by sound institutional functioning, including good governance and democracy. Financial development is measured using M2 and private credit, both as a percentage of GDP, while <i>ED</i> and <i>RD</i> is measured using the Alesina fragmentation index. Our results are supportive of our hypothesis that <i>ED</i> and <i>RD</i> can indeed hamper financial development; these risks, however, are mitigated by well-functioning institutional arrangements.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 3","pages":"262-284"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq by Austin J. Knuppe, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, xxii + 284 pp.","authors":"George L. Simpson Jr.","doi":"10.1111/deve.12433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 2","pages":"207-209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143896859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on “Text as Data in the Study of Politics in Developing Countries”","authors":"Hirokazu Kikuchi, Keiichi Kubo","doi":"10.1111/deve.12432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 1","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women by Fauzia Husain, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2024, xi + 290 pp.","authors":"Maria Rashid","doi":"10.1111/deve.12431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 1","pages":"130-133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour and Capital Use in Indian Manufacturing: Structural Aspects by Anjali Tandon, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2024, xvii + 177 pp.","authors":"Mehak Majeed","doi":"10.1111/deve.12430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 1","pages":"129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Latecomer's Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance by Muyang Chen, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2024, xii + 224 pp.","authors":"Peter J. Morgan","doi":"10.1111/deve.12429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":"63 1","pages":"126-128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143245273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}