Malawi Nyasa Times

ANALYSIS: Mutharika’s Developmental State: How the 2026 SONA Signals Malawi’s Most Radical Economic Reset in Three Decades

President Arthur Peter Mutharika used his 2026 State of the Nation Address not merely to report on government performance, but to outline a coherent and ambitious political economy for Malawi, one ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Authors Profile: Ya-Wen Lei on China’s Techno-Developmental State and Consequences for the Working Class

Ya-Wen Lei, Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies as well as the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, ...
The Punch Newspapers

Between democracy, neoliberalism and the developmental state in fixing Nigeria

My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of engagement with development partners (especially with such multilateral institutions like the ...
The Diplomat

‘Birds of a Feather’ Shaped East Asia’s Development ‘Miracles’

Strangely enough, the literature on “state capacity” – including that on industrial policy and on the entrepreneurial state – says very little about the people who staff the higher ranks of the state.
Harvard Business School

The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience

Reinert, Sophus A. "The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, edited by Mike Wright, Geoffrey T. Wood, Alvaro ...