Written by leading international thinkers on the subject, 'The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy' pulls together different perspectives and schools of thought from neo-classical to structuralist development economics to discuss and highlight the adaptation of industrial policy in an...

The post-war liberal economic order seems to be crumbling, placing the world at an inflection point. China has emerged as a major force, and other emerging economies seek to play a role in shaping world trade and investment law. Might they band together to mount a wholesale challenge to current...

When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the 'tequila effect'. In January 1998, after seven months of financial turmoil in East Asia, Alan Greenspan, the usually reticent Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, noted that such 'vicious cycles...may,...

The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisation and the emergence of markets, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors investigate both the theoretical groundwork of...

1. Urbanisation and development : policy lessons from the BRICS' experience / Gordon McGranahan and George Martine -- 2. Brazil's negligent urban transition and its legacy of divided cities / George Martine and Gordon McGranahan -- 3. China's radical urbanisation and brining capital and labour...