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Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries (2020)
Journal Article
Perry, K. K. (2020). Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries. International Journal of Political Economy, 49(3), 222-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2020.1824735

The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework b... Read More about Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries.

For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti (2019)
Journal Article
Perry, K. K. (2020). For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti. Energy Research and Social Science, 63, Article 101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101397

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The uneven effects of the climate crisis and the need for decarbonization by reducing fossil fuel exploitation and eliminating subsidies create critical trade-offs and tensions for low-income developing countries. Recent reform of... Read More about For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti.

Innovation, institutions and development: A critical review and grounded heterodox economic analysis of late-industrialising contexts (2019)
Journal Article
Perry, K. K. (2020). Innovation, institutions and development: A critical review and grounded heterodox economic analysis of late-industrialising contexts. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44(2), 391-415. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bez049

This paper critically reviews dominant approaches to the economics of innovation in contemporary developing societies, namely new institutional economics (NIE) and National Innovation Systems (NIS). Both traditions explain capitalist development in l... Read More about Innovation, institutions and development: A critical review and grounded heterodox economic analysis of late-industrialising contexts.

The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Perry, K. K. (2018). The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis. Journal of Developing Societies, 34(3), 264-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X18786136

© 2018 SAGE Publications. This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent so... Read More about The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis.