The 1990s and 2000s have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This rise of the regulatory state of the south is barely noticed both by scholars of regulation and of...

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy. The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a much broader understanding...

Introduction : the changing context of Third World political economy / Manochehr Dorraj -- Debt, democracy, and neoliberalism in Latin America : losses and gains of the "lost decade" / Michael W. Foley -- The changing political economy of the Caribbean / Margaretta DeMar -- The political economy...