Senior Lecturer in International Development and Emerging Economies
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Lecturer in the Political Economy of Inclusive Development
Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy and Development
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Senior Lecturer in International Development & Emerging Economies
Professor of International Development
Senior Lecturer in Economics
The contradictions of economic growth
The present dominant political and economic paradigm sees sustained economic growth as crucial to development, yet this occludes the many tensions and contradictions that economic growth yields. Our research highlights that the majority of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries. In the ESRC-funded Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics (GPID) Research Network, we have studied the relationship between economic development, inequality dynamics and inclusive growth in South-East Asia. The countries examined provide lessons for economic and social development, yet their model of growth is now threatened by the spectre of automation.
Challenging economic inequality
For this project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, we scrutinise the growing global inequalities between wages and the real incomes of the wealthiest. We also ask who gets left behind by economic growth, and what does it look like in Mexico, where wages for low-skilled workers have barely increased over 200 years of independence.
Inclusive growth, politics and redistribution
The importance of revenue and redistribution is underlined in this project. Our work shows that the commodity boom of the 2000s enabled the ‘Pink Tide’ of left-wing politics in Latin America, and the prolonged availability of revenue from commodity exports during the boom years provided the resources needed to finance the expansion of social protection systems such as the rollout of cash transfers across the region. The collapse in commodity prices and the recent turn towards right-wing conservatism reminds us of the volatility of commodity-driven development and its accompanying political and economic systems.
- The Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics (GPID) Strategic Research Network / Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) / Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand / £151,623.00
- Inequality, Wages and the Real Incomes of the Rich / Leverhulme Trust / Global / £49,974.00
- Rebuilding Globalisation and Macroeconomics, from the Grassroots / Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) / Global / £43,200.00
- How does outward foreign direct investment contribute to the economic development and firm performance in emerging home economies? / British Academy / China / £9,952.00
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Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
Institute of Economic Growth, India
Beijing Normal University