One of the central premises of the literature on financialisation is that we have been living in
a new era of capitalism, characterised by a historical shift in the finance-production nexus …

The global spread of COVID-19 represents a massive challenge for developing countries.
Beyond the health crisis and the sudden stop of domestic economic activities, many …

The financialization debate has not paid enough attention to the African continent. The
continent's populations and governments have found creative ways of dealing with the …

This paper calls for integrating price-setting power and related uneven exposure to price
risks into the analysis of governance in global value chains (GVCs) as it adds to other power …

The variegated experiences of financialisation in Emerging Capitalist Economies (ECEs)
require a theory of global structural transformation in which these appearances can be …

Starting from the recent rise of much-hyped 'fintech'(financial technologies) solutions for
development finance, which have been heralded by the World Bank/IMF/G20 etc as a silver …

Commodity trading firms occupy a central position in global supply chains and their activities
have been associated with financial instability, social upheaval and manifold forms of …

This literature-based work seeks to analyse the contribution of literature on the commodity
market and also portrays the research framework scenario for nascent researchers. For that …

This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face
in organizing and pursuing their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a …

Financialisation is not a homogenous but a variegated process. However, the question
along which categories this variegation happens is currently unanswered. We identify four …