China's apparent escape from the external constraints of peripheral late industrialisation in the build up to the global economic crisis of 2007-2009 has been recent and remains tenuous. Before its spectacular trade surpluses of the 2000s, China's external accounts reflected many of these...

The articles in this special issue represent a selective output from the 2010 annual conference of the Development Studies Association on the theme of ‘Development Paths: Values, Ethics and Morality’. Following a brief introduction to the articles, we pose several future research challenges...

Recent debates on aid and development are waged on narrow terms in comparison to earlier debates in the 1950s and 1960s. The principal concern of the 'structuralist' pioneers of development economics, and the key absence in the current debates, was an understanding of the structural impediments...