When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This book provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations and applies it to nine countries across Africa and...

A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead - taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints and dynamics - to identify entry points capable of breaking a low-growth logjam, and...

Exploring the politics of inclusive development : towards a new conceptual approach / Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya -- The political determinants of economic growth : an analytical review / Kunal Sen -- The politics of what works for the poor in public expenditure and taxation / Paul...