Markets and Development

<p>Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the <i>political</i> relationship between citizens civil society and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets the universal promotion of public-private partnerships and the ‘development financing’ of extractive industries have all seen citizens social movements and NGOs variously engaged in and against neoliberalism like never before. The precise form that this engagement takes is conditioned by both the perceived and real opportunities and the risks of an agenda which seeks to intern ‘emerging’ and ‘frontier markets’ deep within a concretising world market with transformative repercussions for both those involved and notably for state-society relations. </p><p>The contributors to this volume focus on essential aspects of the contemporary neoliberal development agenda and its relationship to and with citizens and civil society tackling questions related to the roles that various actors within civil society in the underdeveloped world are playing under late capitalism and how these roles relate to current efforts to establish and extend markets and market society more broadly in a neoliberal image. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Globalizations. </i></p>