Recollections of the first years of life of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development insist on its almost natural devotion to the financing of infrastructural and directly productive projects, and in suborder underline the fact that juxtapositions that developed inside the...

Enhancing innovation performance in the industrial sector of the Russian economy is a long overdue. Since 2010 the government has conducted a kind of «incumbent» policy approach, encouraging mainly the largest state-owned companies. The latter are obliged to elaborate and implement innovation...

This paper will trace how East African-based local officials and London-based metropolitan developers differently conceived of the postwar iteration of colonial development and its relationship to the past. When the prospect of a railway linking East and Central Africa resurfaced in the 1940s...