Inequality is neither intrinsically positive or detrimental. Its meaning has been distorted in our veneration of the free market, but some level of inequality is necessary. Continue reading
Category Archives: Development
Politiques de développement : les ambiguïtés du paradigme des communs
Au cours du séminaire « L’essor des communs comme nouvel horizon politique (1970-1990) », Fabien Locher interroge les raisons pour lesquelles la notion de commun s’est imposée comme un nouveau paradigme au sein des grandes institutions de développement. Comment est-on passé de la « tragédie des communs » de Garrett Hardin au prix Nobel d’Elinor Ostrom et à quel prix pour le concept de « commun » ? Continue reading
The failure of Early Development Economics
Did the Early Development Economics fail because their economic thinking was flawed, or because of changes in the wider political and intellectual context? Continue reading
La crise de l’eau dans les villes indiennes
Dans quelle mesure les problèmes d’alimentation en eau sont-ils aggravés par les déficiences administratives, techniques et financières de la gestion publique indienne? Continue reading
Balancing on The Fulcrum of Climate Finance
Are global initiatives to tackle climate change addressing the needs of developing countries? Continue reading
China: economic liberalization without political liberalization?
Why has China’s economic liberalization not led to political democratization? Continue reading
US Banks and the Washington Consensus
There is general agreement that pro – market reforms in the global South have not worked as well as their protagonists in the 1980s or at the time of the Washington Consensus assumed they would. What is less clear is why this should be so. Why is this? Continue reading
