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Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America 数字时代的依赖性？拉丁美洲自由市场的经验

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12839

Sebastián Fernández Franco, Juan M. Graña, Cecilia Rikap

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The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank-funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon 世界银行资助的黎巴嫩比斯里大坝 "失败 "的政治经济学

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12838

Mona Khneisser

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The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility 化石燃料公司的气候补偿案例：道德基础、货币估算和可行性

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12837

Marco Grasso

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Developing Countries and Joint Statement Initiatives at the WTO: Damned if You Join, Damned if You Don't? 发展中国家与世贸组织联合声明倡议：加入就会遭殃，不加入就会遭殃？

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12836

Shamel Azmeh

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The Sectoral Politics of Industrial Policy Making in Brazil: A Polanyian Interpretation 巴西工业政策制定的部门政治：波兰尼解读

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12835

Renato H. de Gaspi, Pedro Perfeito da Silva

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State-owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De-risking at the Limit? 印度尼西亚国有企业与基础设施发展金融化政治：极限去风险？

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12828

Dimitar Anguelov

{"title":"State-owned Enterprises and the Politics of Financializing Infrastructure Development in Indonesia: De-risking at the Limit?","authors":"Dimitar Anguelov","doi":"10.1111/dech.12828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12828","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The need for emerging economies to develop infrastructure in order to drive catch-up growth has become a common refrain in policy circuits. The dominant norm promulgated and disseminated by global development institutions to countries facing infrastructure deficits is the public–private partnership (PPP) model of project finance, a market-based model that seeks to transform infrastructure into a financial asset. Institutionalizing this model requires the deepening of market rationality in governance and the establishment of markets for infrastructure projects and infrastructure debt, underpinned by regulatory and institutional changes aimed at de-risking global investments. However, this model is neither overriding nor monolithic. It is contested, modified and augmented by alternative state-led models, rationalities and practices, animated by developmental politics. The article examines the embeddedness of the PPP model in Indonesia, where it is selectively appropriated by politicians and bureaucrats in line with state development objectives by mobilizing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as developers, insurers and financiers of infrastructure projects. Beyond establishing the conditions for market exchange and de-risking capital, the state, through SOEs, is an active market participant, competing and partnering with private sector actors, while advancing state-led alternatives where the market-based model fails to address development needs. This case highlights the potential for developmental politics to shape the broad use of capital in the face of disciplinary pressure from global finance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"55 3","pages":"493-529"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12828","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141556706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops? 南部非洲农村年轻人的生计轨迹：陷入循环？

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12826

Flora Hajdu, Lorraine van Blerk, Nicola Ansell, Roeland Hemsteede, Evance Mwathunga, Thandie Hlabana, Elsbeth Robson

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Rethinking International Relations and Development in Times of Uncertainty 反思不确定时期的国际关系与发展

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12827

Gabriel Porcile

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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator-oriented Formalization 约旦契约》、难民劳工和以指标为导向的正规化的局限性

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12824

Katharina Lenner, Lewis Turner

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Amplified State Capitalism in China: Overproduction, Industrial Policy and Statist Controversies 中国被放大的国家资本主义：生产过剩、产业政策和国家主义争议

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12825

Mingtang Liu

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