Developing Economics

This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold.

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

The Developing Economics blog has been listed as top 100 economics blogs to follow in 2026! 🥳
https://t.co/HMipF06VMz

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New! Tribute to Peruvian Economist Oscar Ugarteche by Isabel Ortiz. Founder of Latin American Economic Observatory (OBELA),@latindadd, author of 28 books "he is every one of the young economists who learned from him to look the system straight in the eye"
https://t.co/AUIiqpgJjL

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

For a detailed discussion on the Soviet Model. Join the IDEAs webinar Series on the 3rd August. 10:30 UTC https://t.co/GJZfled2aw

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New Post: The Soviet Planning Model by @cpc01: The Soviet development strategy was the principal factor explaining the consolidation of Socialism in One Country subject to capitalist encirclement and plagued by war.(Part of Series on Development Planning)
https://t.co/WsSNawkHJg

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Join us for IDEAs 2nd webinar series Reviving Central Planning: A view from the Global South.

This time we will be looking at The Soviet Union model. The world's first comprehensive planning approach centering equal resource distribution.

🗓️ 3 August, 10:30 UTC
👉Register: Scan QR or visit https://t.co/UvsWmJQwvy

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

💻Webinar: National planning: The Soviet Union model
🗓️Schedule: 3 August, 10:30 UTC
👩🏻‍🏫Moderator: @farwasial
👨🏻‍🏫Discussants: Prabhat Patnaik and @cpc01
👉Register: Scan QR or visit https://t.co/AKp1xOlefF

📌This webinar is the second in the series "Reviving central planning: A Global South perspective", which aims to explore the basics of central planning as they existed around the world and understand the relevance of planned development today. The discussions will focus on the diverse cases of Russia, Eastern Europe, and East Asia to provide a historical analysis of their respective planning models, an assessment of the strengths and limitations of their implementation of these models, as well as an introduction to the rich analysis that emerged from the economic debates and ideas of economists on the idea of and the actual experience with planning.

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: What would it mean to envisionlabour-led urban development —rather than capital- or state-centred development? @DebolinaMaj and @MCollord offer collective reflections based on a recent workshop. And an invitation to join the conversation.
https://t.co/yyhRMCCs7A

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

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".
https://t.co/jWmAEbadTL

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Webinar 1: Why Revisit National Planning. We start with a mention of Global South visionaries: Xue Muqiao,Mahalanobis,Ismail Sabri Abdalla, A. M. Babu,Pedro Vuskovic, Che Guevera & define the fundamentals of Planning with Professors Patnaik Chandrasekhar https://t.co/K9TTjsnHwf

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New- First Post on the Series Reviving Central Planning. Prabhat Patnaik 'Deliberate intervention by the State is needed not only to overcome demand-constraints, as the Keynesians argue, but, to alter composition of demand in a socially equitable manner. https://t.co/6sgu6fRF3K

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: What would it mean to envisionlabour-led urban development —rather than capital- or state-centred development? @DebolinaMaj and @MCollord offer collective reflections based on a recent workshop. And an invitation to join the conversation.
https://t.co/yyhRMCCs7A

[Pınar Kahya @pinarkahyaa]

The current Western Angst and a case for Development Studies 2.0    https://t.co/Su6DdRzZHJ via @CriticalDev

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Devastating by Sarah Raymundo @jinkydoo -on counter-insurgency in Negros island
"Gogol understood this. The dead soul is not only the dead peasant. It is also the living conscience that gradually loses its capacity to recognize another human being"
https://t.co/Ffa88g3m2M

[faisal al-asaad @comradefahd]

"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."

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

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".
https://t.co/jWmAEbadTL

[Ibrahim Oanda @ibrahim_oanda]

The ‘Academic Apex’ and the Colonisation of Development: Unmasking the RCT Scam https://t.co/v1KPDu6AOY via @CriticalDev

[Developing Economics @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!

[Phil 🆓🌍🧩🎲 @Phil_Free_]

Renewing Dependency Theory: The Case of Walter Rodney - @CriticalDev
https://t.co/HU0fwSSSt5

[José Daniel Saade Figueroa @josesaade]

Industrial Policy between Rentierisation and Retaliation https://t.co/7H51oaAeH1 vía @CriticalDev

[Developing Economics @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?
https://t.co/hb2ty2HHZR

[Shiran Illanperuma @shiranperuma]

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?