This paper examines the uneven convergence between Indian development cooperation and the (so-called) ‘traditional’ development establishment. Using the case of Indian government concessional lines of credit (LoCs), handled by the Export–Import Bank, it demonstrates how diplomatic,...

India’s premier development cooperation scheme in Africa, the Indian Development and Economic Assistance Cooperation Scheme-Lines of Credit (IDEAS-LoCs), has launched the country as a dam builder on the continent. This paper examines the first decade of the Lines of Credit (LoC) between 2004...

The 1990s ‘good governance agenda produced a programme of change called the standard reform model. It involves privatising utilities, the creation of markets and the unbundling of electricity-system functions into formally separate, ‘independent’ regulated units. Pushed by the World Bank...

Scholars have typically explained the developmental performance of late-late developers through the analytical lens applied to East Asian developmental states, a lens that focuses on bureaucratic capacity and the bureaucracy's relationship with businesses and with society more broadly. In...

The politics of dams has been analysed from a range of disciplinary perspectives – including comparative politics, international relations, political economy and political ecology – and at varying levels – international, national and local. This paper provides a critical review of this...