Developing Economics @CriticalDev
This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold. developingeconomics.org Joined July 2016-
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"Yet the dead do not disappear. This is perhaps what frightened ruling classes historically about communists, peasant movements, and national liberation struggles. The dead continue organizing the living."
Sarah Raymundo on violence, counter-insurgency in the #Negros, #Philippine: "The island of sugar and massacres.. They recur not because history repeats itself mechanically but because the agrarian question remains unresolved". developingeconomics.org/2026/06/08/dea…
Sarah Raymundo on violence, counter-insurgency in the #Negros, #Philippine: "The island of sugar and massacres.. They recur not because history repeats itself mechanically but because the agrarian question remains unresolved". developingeconomics.org/2026/06/08/dea…
The ‘Academic Apex’ and the Colonisation of Development: Unmasking the RCT Scam developingeconomics.org/2026/03/11/the… via @CriticalDev
We at Developing Economics are pleased to partner with @DevEconNetwork to publish a series of Blogs on 'Reviving Central Planning a Global South Perspective' featuring Marxist Economists Prabhat Patnaik & C.P Chandrasekhar-moderated by @farwasial. Its time to bring Planning Back!
Renewing Dependency Theory: The Case of Walter Rodney - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/04/28/ren…
Industrial Policy between Rentierisation and Retaliation developingeconomics.org/2026/05/29/ind… vía @CriticalDev
NEW POST: The IMF and World Bank spent 40 years stigmatising industrial policy. Now they are mainstreaming it. @shiranperuma asks: has the tide really turned on market fundamentalism? developingeconomics.org/2026/05/29/ind…
The IMF and World Bank spent 40 years stigmatising industrial policy. Now they are mainstreaming it. My piece for @CriticalDev asks: has the tide really turned on market fundamentalism?
📢Webinar series on history & relevance of central planning from #GlobalSouth perspective. Join discussion on meaning & legacy of planning in Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Africa, and East & West Asia. 1st session w/ Prabhat Patnaik, @cpc01 & @farwasial. go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp
The webinar series will be accompanied by teaching and discussion material. @DevEconNetwork is pleased to partner with @CriticalDev for publishing blogs on each webinar. Join us for the first webinar 22nd June 10:30 UTC go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp
The First webinar is scheduled for 22nd June 10:30 UTC will address the meaning +Fundamentals of National Planning & how it differs from Market-led Development. Register and join go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp
Green Debt Bondage: How Indonesia’s Electric Transition Deepens Platform Driver Exploitation developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre… via @CriticalDev
NEW POST: Anindya Dessi Wulansari analyses how worker control operates today in Indonesia, through a seemingly technical process. The piece traces the historical roots of worker depoliticisation & unpacks wage calculation as a form of political control. developingeconomics.org/2026/05/15/sta…
NEW POST: @arifnovianto_id explores how Indonesia’s electric transition deepens platform driver exploitation through the concept of Green Debt Bondage. developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre…
"Green debt bondage: a configuration in which ecological transition, platform governance, and financialised credit converge to bind workers to perpetual labour without delivering the promised climate dividend." 👇🏾
NEW POST: @arifnovianto_id explores how Indonesia’s electric transition deepens platform driver exploitation through the concept of Green Debt Bondage. developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre…
While criticisms of #RCTs have been abundant- responses always focus on justifying methods- this one on @JPAL and the @QJEHarvard explain why methods which need constant defense still flourish @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2026/03/11/the…
NEW POST: @farwasial and @cpc01 offer sharp reflections on the relationship between militarised AI, private credit, and the Iran war. developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/mil…
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