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The everyday construction of value: A Canadian investment fund, Chilean water infrastructure, and financial subordination

Pryke, Michael; Allen, John - In: Finance and Society 8 (2022) 2, pp. 189-208

Infrastructure in several economies in the Global South has rapidly undergone financialization, aided and abetted by … streams. This account of financialization could be the end of the story were it not for the fact that Christophers (2015) and … 'worked' to generate value over time. Here, we draw attention to a slower-paced financialization of infrastructure assets …

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Bringing subordinated financialisation down to earth : the political ecology of finance-dominated capitalism

Althouse, Jeffrey; Svartzman, Romain - In: Cambridge journal of economics 46 (2022) 4, pp. 679-702

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Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the Global South

Martinez-Vargas, Carmen - 2022

"In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for...

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Traditional conflicts and dynamic coalitions at the World Climate Conference: COP28: new room for manœuvre in international climate politics

Könneke, Jule; Adolphsen, Ole - 2024

The outcome of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference shows that international cooperation remains possible despite today's challenging geopolitical situation. Instead of the feared blockade, an agreement was reached for the first time - some three decades after the start of the COP process - to...

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Economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of global value chains

Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg; Mehl, Fabian; … - 2021

The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects and, as the IMF (2021, p. 43) puts it: "a crisis like no other". A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put together in some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up...

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Local and regional development in the Global North and South

Pike, Andy; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tomaney, John - In: Progress in Development Studies 14 (2014) 1, pp. 21-30

Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing and urbanizing nations in the Global South. Each...

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Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in international health: Using a feminist participatory action research process to analyse voices and debates from the global south and north

Tolhurst, Rachel; Leach, Beryl; Price, Janet; Robinson, Jude - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1825-1832

Critiques of gender mainstreaming (GM) as the officially agreed strategy to promote gender equity in health internationally have reached a critical mass. There has been a notable lack of dialogue between gender advocates in the global north and south, from policy and practice, governments and...

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Changing higher education landscapes - implications for South Africa

Baumert, Stefanie - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 281-294

In changing societal contexts, systems and institutions of higher education are in need of reorientation. In this article, it is argued that part of the search for reorientation in the South African higher education system is confronted by two overlapping processes: national transformation on...

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Intellectual flexibility, innovative partnerships and collaborations in the African university of the 21st century: policy challenges and way forward

Simala, Kenneth Inyani - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 214-229

Policy challenges facing African universities are well documented and relate to such issues as curricula, governance, funding, roles and expectations. To meet these challenges calls for radical and strategic changes that will impact on the overall policy and practice of universities as presently...

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Global best practices, national innovation systems, and tertiary education: a critique of the World Bank's Accelerating Catch-up (2009)

Keating, Michael F. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 251-265

The World Bank's 2009 publication Accelerating Catch-up: Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa outlines tertiary education reforms designed to promote knowledge economies. In this document, the World Bank recognises that reforming the tertiary education sector in sub-Saharan Africa...

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