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A Critical Perspective On Development Economics
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USAID is being dismantled, what comes next? An Interview with Liz Grossman Kitoyi
Published: December 1, 2025 10:13
‘Most young Africans I meet are not mourning the loss of aid, but they’re questioning why it took so long to reckon with its fragility’ In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr Amber Murrey, a scholar of anti-imperial geographies and co-author of Learning…
Trump is attracting investment to the US – but at a huge cost to workers and the environment
Published: November 18, 2025 13:24
Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the United States paints a more complex picture. Less than a…
Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains—it’s powering them
Published: October 21, 2025 09:30
Global supply chains (GSCs) – which account for around 70 percent of international trade – are often referred to as the backbone of the world economy. As tensions rise between major powers—especially the United States and China – many commentators fear for…
The Data War Comes Home
https://developingeconomics.org/2025/10/15/the-data-war-comes-home/
Published: October 15, 2025 11:00
The Trump administration’s ongoing attempts at manipulating US government economic data echoes controversies that have existed in the realm of development data for decades. These controversies highlight the unavoidable, intrinsically political nature of…
Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance
Published: October 7, 2025 09:00
The year 2025 will be the third consecutive year in which the Brazilian economy experiences sustained growth. During the first two years of his administration, economic expansion was above 3% annually, while the outlook for 2025 is for a slowdown: 2.4%,…
The Fiscal Black Holes of Mainstream Economics
https://developingeconomics.org/2025/09/29/the-fiscal-black-holes-of-mainstream-economics/
Published: September 29, 2025 11:42
By Jacob Assa and Marc Morgan “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”― Joan Robinson Recent years have seen a proliferation of debates…
Jorge Lobo Miglioli (1935-2025): Marx, Kalecki and the desenvolvimentistas dream in Brazil
Published: September 24, 2025 08:36
I met Professor Jorge Miglioli in 2000, the year I started my undergraduate studies in Economics at UNESP, Araraquara – Brazil, fully convinced it was the right path if you wanted to change the world. I did briefly consider Sociology too, but my mum (like…
New World Order against Tariffs: SCO Development Bank as an anti-sanctions tool?
Published: September 5, 2025 13:42
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent developments were the agreement in principle to establish an SCO…
Systems Thinking, Polycrisis, and the Blind Spot of Power
https://developingeconomics.org/2025/08/26/systems-thinking-polycrisis-and-the-blind-spot-of-power/
Published: August 26, 2025 09:00
Why do so many people who claim to “see the whole system” remain blind to power? This question struck me while listening to a recent episode of Planet Critical. The guest was Joseph Tainter, best known for The Collapse of Complex Societies. Tainter is…
How Philanthrocapitalism Will Not Save the World Health Organisation
Published: August 19, 2025 10:22
In the past two decades, global health governance has undergone a quiet revolution, shaped less by sovereign states and more by the growing influence of private capital. The World Health Organisation (WHO), once envisioned as the democratic engine of…