Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in Global South by exploring concept of fiscal states common assumption that such are present sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically review diverse understandings state across relevant literatures revisit its conceptualization. On basis, we define as a whose public base is dominated tax loans, where...

This article examines how the US, Russia and China have promoted expanded rent extraction in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan. While global powers articulated competing discourses strategies on economic development region, they largely achieved similar outcomes of rentierism. In ‘free market’ agenda Washington Consensus has co-existed with China's Belt Road Initiative (BRI) Russia-led Eurasian Economic Un...

Olaszországot és Líbiát szoros kapcsolatok fűzik egymáshoz a gazdasági biztonság területén, ez azonban nincs tudományos kutatások középpontjában. Az aszimmetrikus nagyobb állam számára politikai befolyást is biztosíthatnak. olasz–líbiai kereskedelmi nagy részét líbiai kőolaj földgáz Olaszországba való exportja teszi ki, aminek mennyisége 2011 óta jelentősen csökkent. ENI legnagyobb külföldi sze...

On 26 November 2022 the Andrews Labor Government was re-elected for a third term in State of Victoria. The starting point this paper is its decision during pandemic to seemingly break with neoliberal political orthodoxy, by boldly and deliberately leveraging state’s balance sheet avoid recession, using debt-funded record levels spending, particularly on infrastructure, as means doing so. argues...

this paper seeks to examine the current situation of development in the middle east and particularly the challenges ahead of the region in attaining sustainable development and human development in the near future. the elitist theory is adopted as the conceptual framework for the research, since in the absence of institutionalization, the attitudes and behavior of power-holders serve as valid g...