Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

6-3-2018

Publication Title

Third World Quarterly

Volume

39

Issue

6

First Page

1033

Keywords

Developmental state, natural resource-led growth, new developmentalism, post-neoliberalism, state capacity

Last Page

1055

Abstract

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.

DOI

10.1080/01436597.2018.1455143

ISSN

01436597

E-ISSN

13602241

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