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
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–presentSenior Researcher, Charter Cities Institute
Education
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2005School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, PhD
Publications
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2022Paul Romer, charter cities and lessons from historical big infrastructure, Cities
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2021The Dragon from the Mountains: CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar, Cambridge University Press
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2020The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Infrastructure, Social Savings, Spillovers, and Economic Growth in Pakistan, Eurasian Geography and Economics
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2020The Prospects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): The Importance of Understanding Western China, Contemporary South Asia
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2019New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change, Oxford University Press
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2019The Indian Economy: 1947-2017, Agenda
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2019Class and Conflict: Bardhan’s Political Economy of Development in India Thirty Years On, Oxford University Press
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2017Pro-business and pro-market reforms in Pakistan: economic growth and stagnation 1950–51 to 2011–12, Journal of Asia Pacifc Economy
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2016A Consensus Unravels: NREGA and the Paradox of Rules-based Welfare in India, European Journal of Development Research
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2015Economic Growth and Development: A Comparative Introduction, Palgrave
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2014Ever Decreasing Circles: The Empirical, Theoretical and (even) Ideological Problems with Cross-State Regression Analysis in India, Journal of International Development
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2011Pakistan – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State – 1951 – 2008, Routledge
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2010Political Economy, Growth and Liberalisation in India, 1991-2008, Routledge
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2009India - The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State – 1951-2007, Routledge
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2009Episodes or Evolution: The Genesis of Liberalisation in India, Journal of South Asian Development
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