This paper focuses on the differences between International Political Economy (IPE) versus Global (GPE) in Latin America. It explores how IPE tends to be taught and researched beyond mainstream but dialogue with it. engages main literature of this field discuss contours extension a transition teaching research. rests upon historical sociological approach employs qualitative analysis syllabi cur...

Most theories of political economy operate in terms of what might be called separated political economy, as illustrated by the formulation: political economy = polity + economy. Within this formulation it is reasonable to speak of the state intervening into the market economy. In contrast to separated political economy, this paper explores some aspects of what might be called an entangled polit...

This paper analyzes the determinants of multilateral aid from international financial institutions (IFIs) to Pakistan, focusing on the world three major IFIs, the World Bank, the IMF and the ADB. Political economic factors, notably bureaucratic interests and major shareholders economic interests, are suspected to be relevant in international aid allocation decisions. Pooled Tobit estimation ana...

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Minimum standards set by a ‘World Environmental Organisation’ (WEO) and NGO labelling are promoted as alternative approaches to international environmental protection. We explore the potential inter-play between these two approaches when the WEO is subject to pressure from producers. We find that if WEO and NGO schemes are mutually exclusive then the existence of an NGO ‘alternative’ increases ...

Papaioannou, Theo; Watkins, Andrew; Mugwagwa, Julius and Kale, Dinar (2015). Industry Associations and the Changing Politics of Making Medicines in South Africa. In: Mackintosh, Maureen; Banda, Geoffrey; Tibandebage, Paula and Wamae, Watu eds. Making Medicines in Africa: the Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health. International Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ...

This paper investigates the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions. We model institutions as fixed costs of entry, in a framework that has two key features. First, preferences over entry costs differ across firms and depend on firm size. Larger firms prefer to set higher costs of entry, in order to reduce competition. Second, these costs are endogenous...

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Developing countries face uncertain trajectories for growth in the twenty-first century, with many finding themselves a ‘middle-income trap’. Extant theories politics of development that focus on domestic institutional strength and weakness represent necessary but not fully sufficient explanations middle-income countries. In order to explain uneven outcomes an era heightened globalisation, this...