Physical infrastructure is important, and on paper it aligns with ECOWAS integration, however, without a harmonized regulatory framework, synchronized industrial & trade policy these projects run the risk of remaining fragmented at the national level.

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Brazil has welcomed Chinese support in building out its information communication technology sector (ICT) through welcoming Huawei to the point that it complicates its formal non-alignment status.

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“‘North’ and ‘South’ are overarching concepts for highlighting important historical and structural inequalities that still influence the foreign policy positions and diplomatic affinities between countries.”

4/15

Ghayas and Kamal conclude that CPEC could elevate Karachi to the global significance of Singapore or Dubai if security, bureaucracy & dependency challenges are overcome & projects are carefully managed.

7/7

In their recent paper Tanja Borzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu & Valentin Krüsmann compare EU & China approaches to development in Eastern Europe by considering program, implementation & the propensity for these two powers to collide, compete or cooperate. 1/9 tinyurl.com/2s49866c

Characteristics of social developmentalism (SD)
Demand induced development + commitments to social inclusion & reducing inequality through redistribution; temporarily relies upon commodity exports & fosters public & private investment in the economic and social infrastructure. 5/8

Characteristics of new developmentalism (ND)

Channeling immediate gains into investment to boost productivity for later wage gains. Leans heavily on
a well managed exchange rate with coordinated fiscal & monetary policy. 2/8

Nagel's findings indicate that these differences have contributed to varying outcomes. The implications of his findings shed light on the agency of countries in the Global South and the need for scholarship to take variations in EMDE political economies more seriously.

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His work challenges the literature in important ways as he finds that it is possible to a greater extent than previously thought to conduct industrial policy without either large fiscal capacity or large financial inflows. 2/6

The “Develop now, distribute later” slogan might explain more of Dec 2 than it should.

FDR fan Lee Jae-myung may not be an outright social democrat, but the history of repressing anything resembling social democracy was clearly enough of a precedent for Yoon to overestimate his hand.
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