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Financializing Maternal and Newborn Care: Temporal Tensions within a Development Impact Bond in India 孕产妇和新生儿护理的金融化：印度发展影响债券中的时间紧张关系

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12867

Sandra Bärnreuther

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Rice Margins Under Climate Change: Labour and Knowledge in Mangrove Rice Networks in Guinea-Bissau 气候变化下的水稻边际：几内亚比绍红树林水稻网络中的劳动力和知识

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12868

Joana Sousa, Ansumane Braima Dabó, Ana Luísa Luz

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The World Bank and Rural Land Titling in Africa: The Case of Tanzania 世界银行与非洲农村土地所有权：以坦桑尼亚为例

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12866

Howard Stein, Rie Odgaard, Kelly Askew, Faustin Maganga

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Discourses of Land Conflicts in Indonesia 印度尼西亚土地冲突的话语

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Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12865

Ward Berenschot, Nisrina Saraswati

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Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam 非洲城市发展谈判：达累斯萨拉姆跨国嵌入式支持社区

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12862

Sylvia Croese, Wilbard Kombe

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The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa 中国两家政策性银行在非洲能源债务融资的政治经济学变化

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12864

Tianyi Wu

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The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency 农村环境登记册的国际和地方政治：巴西的绿色货币

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12863

Claudia Horn

{"title":"The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil's Green Currency","authors":"Claudia Horn","doi":"10.1111/dech.12863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12863","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the 2000s, rural elites have engaged in ‘greening’ the Amazon extractive frontier. Private and state-led initiatives have consolidated the agro-industrial system by incentivizing compliance and effectively legalizing deforestation. Brazil's Rural Environmental Registry (Cadastro Ambiental Rural — CAR) is fundamental to ‘sustainable producer’ initiatives and international and local carbon markets. Since its emergence at the end of the 1990s, it has been funded and promoted by European countries and the World Bank through the G7 Pilot Programme for the Conservation of Brazilian Rainforests and the Amazon Fund. This analysis draws on a critical political economy approach and several years of multi-site interviews, participant observation and archival research to illuminate how donor and recipient agencies have sustained territorial and georeferencing technologies as an international state project to enable the green economy, despite political shifts and the inherent contradictions of this instrument. The article shows how ecological modernization technologies enable the ‘greening’ of agro-industry expansion while exacerbating land conflicts and marginalizing Indigenous and traditional peoples’ collective land rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"55 6","pages":"1230-1258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860688","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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Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America 精英动态与中国在拉美的影响力

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12861

Benedicte Bull, Antulio Rosales

{"title":"Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America","authors":"Benedicte Bull, Antulio Rosales","doi":"10.1111/dech.12861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12861","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise of China as a trading partner, lender and investor is among the most significant developments in the global political economy over the last two decades. This shift has created important new opportunities for developing countries, but it has also introduced new challenges, with benefits and drawbacks unevenly distributed across different nations. This article argues that understanding the developmental consequences of China's involvement requires studying not only Chinese priorities and modalities but also the interests and strategies of local elites. The development of Latin America has been profoundly influenced by these elite interests, which are shaped by the region's integration into the global economy. Elites may leverage the benefits of the relationship to China to enhance their rent-seeking capabilities and limit competition, thereby hindering development and perpetuating inequality in Latin America. This argument is examined through the contrasting cases of Chile and Venezuela; while Chile's approach to China has been dominated by private sector elites, Venezuela's approach has been driven by governmental elites. In both cases, integration with China is shaped by and has in turn strengthened interests and strategies of the elites.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"55 6","pages":"1206-1229"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12861","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142861095","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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The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism 赔偿的政治经济学与跨国资本主义的辩证法

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12860

Hilbourne A. Watson

{"title":"The Political Economy of Reparations and the Dialectic of Transnational Capitalism","authors":"Hilbourne A. Watson","doi":"10.1111/dech.12860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12860","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The contemporary global capitalist crisis provides the context for studying reparations, the struggles for which face uphill challenges, foremost because transnational capital will only engage with reparations to serve its own interests. Far from being a panacea for historical wrongs, reparations campaigns are shaped by the historical logics of capitalist accumulation and the liberal racial social contract. The cases of Namibia and the Commonwealth Caribbean (CARICOM) that are examined in this study highlight the contradictions that underpin the demand for reparations arising from genocide in Namibia and capitalist slavery in the CARICOM region. The cases reveal an association of reparations initiatives with buying complicity or capitalist fixes rather than reparative justice for historical grievances, while more autonomous demands for reparations face violent suppression, as in the case of Haiti. Today's reparations struggles are further undermined by revolutionary innovations in digital and robotics technology, confronting exploited racialized populations with a rapidly dwindling supply of jobs. This article locates the contemporary reparations debate within the wider context of global capitalism and its racialized liberal foundations, tracing the links between colonial wrongs, international power relations and ongoing systems of capitalist accumulation which reparations are used to stabilize rather than challenge. It is thus difficult to make a case for the transformational potential of reparations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"55 4","pages":"752-772"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524589","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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Mobilized Resilience and Development under Sanctions in Iran 伊朗制裁下的动员复原力与发展

IF 3 2区社会学

Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-10-06 DOI: 10.1111/dech.12859

Zep Kalb

{"title":"Mobilized Resilience and Development under Sanctions in Iran","authors":"Zep Kalb","doi":"10.1111/dech.12859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12859","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do states maintain economic development in the face of sanctions? Recent studies have examined economic resilience as a property of a system preceding a shock, leaving unanswered questions about how sanctioned states discipline employers and limit predatory behaviour. Using the case of Iran, this article aims to fill this gap by presenting a model of <i>Mobilized resilience</i>, describing how bottom-up and top-down mobilizations can create demand for institutional capacity. Integrating unique qualitative and quantitative material, the author argues that Iran's political elites responded to sanctions by launching top-down campaigns that appealed to workers, promoted capital–labour unity, and demanded state commitment to development. These campaigns facilitated widespread labour protests that further empowered the state to block capital flight and steer firms onto more profitable, growth-oriented routes. Labour ‘resistance’ thus unexpectedly helped to realize the Supreme Leader's calls for a ‘resistance economy’. These findings suggest that political support for worker mobilization in the context of sanctions can result in economic benefits, with significant consequences for our understanding of economic statecraft, development and labour movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"55 5","pages":"933-964"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12859","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595654","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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