The Renaissance of the Developmental State in the Age of Post-Neoliberalism

This chapter analyses the background of the developmental state and assesses why the developmental state framework is the most effective way to explain the return of state activism - and the renewal of industrial policy - in the developing world. The common focus on industrialization from a modernization perspective of the 'East catching up with the West' is changed towards a contested account of economic development taking the internal dynamics of the East Asian region as a starting point. The chapter's first section discusses an alternative view on development by exploring recent works that aim to decentre the industrialization story of the West and to recast economic development and changes in the world order in wider temporal coverage. The second section revisits the transferability debate and re-examines the lessons to be drawn from East Asian developmental states. The third section identifies two examples upon which the DS model has been deployed beyond the first-generation developmental states - neo-developmentalism/neo-extractivism in Latin America and 'large enterprise, go bigger' strategy in China. The chapter concludes by exploring the prospects and challenges in the renewal of plural DS models in the twenty-first century

Recentring industrial policy paradigm within IPE and development studies

The article makes the case for a distinctive intellectual tradition of the industrial policy paradigm to examine state strategies in the twenty-first century. Specifically, it outlines three key lessons for political economy scholarship: first, it points to the need to study complementary institutions and the longer-term horizon in political cycles; second, it notes that scholars must seek innovative methodologies in examining sectoral development; and, third, it calls for a rethinking of state capacity in the new phase of globalisation, marked by strategic competition and neo-mercantilism. In so doing, the article opens a new research agenda for the next generation of scholars focussed on how industrial policy might help–or fail–to promote the creation of new comparative advantages and the advancement of internationally competitive firms and sectors, and, importantly, to deliver better quality of life for citizens in most of the Global South.</p

The theory and practice of building developmental states in the Global South

Reviewing decades of thinking regarding the role of the state in economic development, we argue for the continued relevance of the concept of the ‘developmental state’. With reference to Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and China, we contend that new developmental states are evidence of a move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. Further, we argue for the applicability of the developmental state framework to key questions of governance, institution building, industrial policy and the extractive industries, as well as to a wide variety of cases of successful and failed state-led development in the early twenty-first century

Seroprevalence of paratuberculosis in Indian buffaloes

ABSTRACT The prevalence of paratuberculosis in Indian buffaloes is largely unknown. The present study reports the seroprevalence of paratuberculosis in Indian buffaloes. Of 365 sera samples tested, absorbed-ELISA and agar-gel immunodiffusion test developed in the laboratory for the detection of antibodies specific to paratuberculosis identified 14.5% and 3.2% sera positive for the infection, respectively

Political Opportunities, Collective Identity Building and Regional Social Mobilisation versus Free Trade in Southeast Asia and Latin America

Transnational activism related to social justice claims is a watershed research area in social movements research. In particular, trade protests have a transnational dimension that was marked by the collapse of the Ministerial Meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to push for further liberalisation. Between 2001 and 2007, several protests targeted international institutions representing neoliberalism. Disruptive and sporadic in nature, global protests aimed to derail the deepening of the neoliberal development model using the free trade debate as a core policy arena. This article maps out a framework to analyse social mobilisation led by civil society actors at the regional level where it emphasises collective identity-building as a central tenet to successfully change the politics of trade policy making. In this paper, I examine the insufficiency of political opportunity structures as an explanation to regional level activism. Whilst the existence of regional institutions as targets and democratisation as a window of opportunity to mobilise are relevant explanations, transnational activism requires more identity construction to forge transnational solidarity. The paper shows this using the cases of the anti-free trade network in Southeast Asia and the anti-FTAA movement in Latin America, particularly the Hemispheric Social Alliance. Whilst Southeast Asian activists frame anti-free trade positions in a less radical fashion, the HSA used trade protests as a springboard for further mobilisation against the broader neoliberal agenda. And although framing processes in activist coalitions have some imilarities, especially at the level of global movement, more differences can be found with regard to strategies due to the contrast in contexts of activism, which overall reflect collective identity formations in regions. Finally, cycles of protests in Latin America and Southeast Asia demonstrate how previous protests against trade liberalisation in Latin America bring about more protests compared to Southeast Asia, wherein only anti-FTA campaigns have emerged and where other forms of neoliberal resistance have yet to be linked to the FTA campaigns.Abstract Introduction Transnational Anti-Free Trade Movements in Latin America and Southeast Asia: An Overview Political Opportunities for Mobilisation in Southeast Asia and Latin America Regionalisation as Political Spaces in Latin America and Southeast Asia From Transnational to Domestic Institutional Structures Framing Processes and Collective Identity Building in Transnational Social Movements Framing Resistance: Comparisons between Latin America and Southeast Asia in the Global Context Challenges in Collective Identity Building Conclusions Bibliograph