Southern Development Banks, Infrastructure and the Environment: Research from the Andean Amazon

Two recent articles highlight research on the social and environmental safeguards of Southern development banks (banks from China, Brazil, CAF and IDB), undertaken by colleagues at Boston University´s Global Development Policy Center, the Universidad del Pacífico, FLACSO – Ecuador and INSEAD – Bolivia.   Kevin Gallagher and Rebecca Ray lead this project from BU, and the UP
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Governing Extractive Industries. Politics, Histories, Ideas

I am pleased to share this new publication from Oxford University Press, the result of extensive research conducted under the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) project at the University of Manchester.   Our team was led by Anthony Bebbington, with Abdul Garafu-Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar and myself, and an amazing team of junior
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