Professor McCartney is a development economist by background with a teaching and research specialization in the economic development of India and Pakistan after 1947. He has published, supervised, and taught on economic issues relating to industrialization, technology, trade, the role of the state, investment and economic growth, and human development issues relating to nutrition, employment, education, poverty, and inequality. He has also worked for the World Bank, USAID, EU, and UNDP in Botswana, Georgia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bosnia, and Zambia.
He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SOAS, University of London. His latest book is the outcome of two years of research-based in China and Pakistan ‘The Dragon from the Mountains: The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
Experience
–present
Senior Researcher, Charter Cities Institute
Education
2005
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, PhD
Publications
2022
Paul Romer, charter cities and lessons from historical big infrastructure, Cities
2021
The Dragon from the Mountains: CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar, Cambridge University Press
2020
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Infrastructure, Social Savings, Spillovers, and Economic Growth in Pakistan, Eurasian Geography and Economics
2020
The Prospects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): The Importance of Understanding Western China, Contemporary South Asia
2019
New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change, Oxford University Press
2019
The Indian Economy: 1947-2017, Agenda
2019
Class and Conflict: Bardhan’s Political Economy of Development in India Thirty Years On, Oxford University Press
2017
Pro-business and pro-market reforms in Pakistan: economic growth and stagnation 1950–51 to 2011–12, Journal of Asia Pacifc Economy
2016
A Consensus Unravels: NREGA and the Paradox of Rules-based Welfare in India, European Journal of Development Research
2015
Economic Growth and Development: A Comparative Introduction, Palgrave
2014
Ever Decreasing Circles: The Empirical, Theoretical and (even) Ideological Problems with Cross-State Regression Analysis in India, Journal of International Development
2011
Pakistan – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State – 1951 – 2008, Routledge
2010
Political Economy, Growth and Liberalisation in India, 1991-2008, Routledge
2009
India - The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State – 1951-2007, Routledge
2009
Episodes or Evolution: The Genesis of Liberalisation in India, Journal of South Asian Development