Global crises not only deeply impact the economy and people's livelihoods, they also unsettle basic ideas and assumptions about the meaning and drivers of development. This collection of theoretical and empirical studies explores the substance and politics of policy change following the 2007/8 crisis from the perspective of developing countries.
Author Biography:
CAMILA ARZA Research fellow at the Latin American School of Social Sciences and CONICET, Argentina
ARINDAM BANERJEE Consultant at the Research and Information System in Developing Countries, New Delhi, India
BJÖRN BECKMAN Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden
SARAH COOK Director of UNRISD, Switzerland
BOB DEACON Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations Centre for Regional Integration in Bruges, Belgium
ANDREW DOWNES Professor of Economics and Director of Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Barbados
DIANE ELSON Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK
BEN FINE Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
ANDREW FISCHER Senior Lecturer of Population and Social Policy at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands
INDIRA HIRWAY Director and Professor of Economics at the Centre for Development Alternatives, India
BOB JESSOP Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK
GOVIND KELKAR Senior Analyst at the Programme and Research of the Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi; and Gender Advisor at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India
DEV NATHAN Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi,India; and Visiting Fellow at Duke University, Durham, USA
SEETA PRABHU Senior Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme, India
YING YU Research fellow at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK