Anil Hira
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 702253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anil Hira |
| NOMBRES | Anil |
| APELLIDO | Hira |
| FIRMA | HIRA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4831-284X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The geopolitics of the green transition and critical Strategic minerals
The world is slowly transitioning away from fossil fuels. Much attention has been placed on technological breakthroughs needed for the green transition, such as longer-lasting batteries to extend the standard electric vehicle (EV) range, and on domestic and global policy challenges that accompany emissions reductions. Green technologies primarily rely upon critical strategic minerals (CSM). This article posits that just as the drive to control pe…
Strategic options for building a new electricity grid in South Sudan
This article presents a case study of the struggles of South Sudan, the newest country to develop a new electricity grid, and the strategic choices it faces in a post-conflict situation. In addition to the energy trilemma around security, price, and sustainability, we add a fourth consideration for policy, namely the distribution of benefits and ability of government both to provide collective goods and to use them to reinforce its power in the c…
Plastic Waste Mitigation Strategies
Global plastics waste is an issue of ever-increasing urgency. Estimates suggest some 79% of plastic waste is dumped into the environment, where it is likely to have devastating effects on ecosystems and human health. Marine plastic pollution is a particularly challenging issue, as plastics take decades to break down, and do so into micro- and nanoparticles that affect marine ecosystems and the food web. The plastics pollution problem is magnified…
Mitigating Tannery Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
The global leather market is worth more than $270 billion annually, and provides an important and accessible source of manufacturing exports for countries in the Global South. Leather is the source for a range of apparel items, including handbags, belts, shoes, wallets, gloves, and various other products, such as furniture, car seats, and luggage. Behind all leather goods is the tannery industry, with much of the raw materials processing located …
Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme (SMEP)
The circular economy (CE) is a topic of growing interest, spurred by climate change and increasing recognition of the considerable costs of energy and materials waste, that reflect increasing stress on global environmental systems. Those costs range from physical landfill expenses to effects on human and natural world health. While there are a growing number of articles about the CE, there remains a great deal of ambiguity around pathways to impl…
Shifting to Circular Manufacturing in the Global South
As the Global South shifts towards increased manufacturing, the negative effects on climate change and environmental pollution raise serious concerns. These global effects are increasingly felt locally, as reflected in health surveys throughout the Global South. The world cannot afford to wait for a natural development process to take place in which rising incomes might curb pollution. This article examines the challenges of reforming manufacturi…
Reducing Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution in the Global South
The hollow core
Corporations are playing increasingly significant roles in trying to resolve global governance issues through corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and practices, in response to pressure by NGOs and cognizant consumers, and to activist shareholders. Many firms claim that they “can do well by doing good”, advertising their CSR initiatives as part of their brand. These pressures have converged towards an institutionalization of CSR, includ…
Epilogue
Introduction
In the introduction to this special issue, we point to the large-scale failure of existing corporate social responsibility systems to address ongoing global environmental and labor standards issues. Competing codes, absent harmonization, conflicted and limited auditing and transparency, and an almost complete lack of enforcement mean that the considerable efforts by corporations and their partner international organizations, consultants, and NGOs…
Developing State Capacity
The emergence of “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) among Western multinationals reflects doubts about governments in the South to regulate production as well as a vacuum of global regulatory capacity and authority. In response to criticism, media shaming, and protests from NGOs and civil society organizations centered around labor and environmental concerns, corporations began to organize a global public regime, as reflected in the Global C…
Profile of the Sharing Economy in the Developing World
Sharing economy companies are proliferating across the developing world, yet we know very little about their nature, including whether and how they are different from their Western counterparts, and whether they offer new development paths as discussed in the introduction. In theory, the internet can level the playing field to allow the poor in the developing world to share information, access capital, and cooperate in joint ventures in new ways.…
Renewable Energy in Central America
We are at an historical crossroads. The latest IPCC report gives dire predictions about potential losses from climate change, ranging from high sea levels to deterioration of agricultural production. Although emissions are still concentrated in the North, the most‐rapid growth of emissions is occurring in the South, suggesting the need for major changes in the trajectory of its economic development. Massive aid flows for climate‐change mitigation…
Understanding the Deep Roots of Success in Effective Civil Services
As discussed in the preface to this edition, there are three cases in the developing world which stand out in regard to corruption: Singapore, Hong Kong, and Chile. While all have had differing rates of economic growth and their own particular struggles with governance, they are the only consistently high performers over long periods of time. To better understand the roots of their success, this article compares the three cases with two other cas…
Broken Windows
Corruption, or misuse of public office for private gain, is continually in the headlines. From hunger strikes in India to scandals around defence procurement in Canada, attention to corruption is growing. Corruption has been linked to weak economic growth and development outcomes (Kulshreshtha, 2008, p. 558). Though the problems of corruption have led aid agencies to recognize the fundamental importance of good governance, progress has been halti…
Closing Remarks on Culture and Corruption
New Zealand wine
New Zealand’s remarkable transformation from a wool and meat producer to a highly diversified economy is one of the more remarkable economic stories of the post-World War II period. Part of this diversification is tied to New Zealand’s development as a world-class wine producer, a remarkable feat given its small population. New Zealand’s institutional arrangements provide an example for other small agriculturally-based producers wishing to move t…
The South African wine industry
Examining the South African wine industry reveals an impressive level of success, but one whose long-term prospects are undermined by bifurcation within the industry. The Triple Helix institutions work well in one side of the industry, but are weak or missing in the other. We thus have two industries, one highly successful at reaching world markets with quality wine, and the other focused on local or bulk wine markets. The challenges to cooperati…
US wine industry
The US wine industry is frequently thought to be California – an undoubted success story. However, three other regions – New York, Washington State and Oregon – have wine industries facing mixed fortunes. This paper reviews the progress of each, demonstrating how the triple helix model identifies key relationship advantages and problems that explain performance rather better than natural advantages or market conditions. The paper reviews the mixe…
Mapping out the Triple Helix
As of 2010, the OECD countries spent over $968 billion annually on research and development (R&D), with China spending another $179 billion, Russia $32 billion and Taiwan $24 billion. Evidently, the world’s policymakers have concluded that investment in R&D is a key to their future economic growth. As globalisation takes place, and developing countries increasingly show their ability to compete in labour-intensive manufactures, the race is on to …
Institutional stickiness and coordination issues in an idiosyncratic environment
This article explores the foundations of an industry whose rate of growth is surprising to most observers. Starting from an historical institutional (HI) perspective, we demonstrate that moderately adaptive institutions have been instrumental to the success of the Ontario wine industry up to this point. An analysis of coordination using a Triple Helix framework reveals, however, that the particularities of the institutional design have more recen…
Institutional design matters
Triple Helix theory prescribes coordinated actions among government, research institutions and industry to achieve growth. However, the Brazilian wine industry case shows that simply having the institutions is not enough – the institutional framework matters. This paper shows three problems in the Brazilian institutional design that hamper wine quality improvements and impede the development of an effective, fully-fledged Triple Helix model in th…
Australia as a Triple Helix exemplar
Australia’s phenomenal success in developing as a global wine exporter deserves more attention from the point of view of economic and competitiveness strategy. Its success embodies the expectations of the Triple Helix that there will be institutions explicitly oriented towards developing end extending industry-relevant research, and that industry targets will be coordinated with public, collective aims. Australia stretches this framework even fur…
The Kurdish Mirage
Fueling Resistance
As we reluctantly and inconsistently stumble towards a global economy based on renewable energy, batteries, and electric vehicles, the predominantly technocratic approach to the green transition is
Should Economists Rule the World? Trends and Implications of Leadership Patterns in the Developing World, 1960—2005
This article examines more carefully the oft-made hypotheses that (1) “technocrats” or politicians with an economics background are increasingly common and (2) that this “improvement” in qualifications will lead to improvements in economic policy. The article presents a database on the qualifications of leaders of the world's major countries over the past four decades. The article finds that while there is evidence for increasing “technification,…
Deregulation and Participation
Amidst the wave of privatization and “deregulation” across the globe, a new set of regulatory structures is being created. The fact that deregulation actually involves “re-regulation” has been acknowledged in the recent literature, but the tension between regulation and public participation has been understudied in these new structures. While some private markets need effective regulation to reduce transactions costs and ensure stable market rule…
The New Institutionalism
This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional constraints on decision makers, the new institutionalism correctly points out the limits of a rational choice framework of economic decision making. However, by failing to explain the sources and avenues of modifications of those constraints, the new institutionalism is unable to provide a s…
Strategic options for building a new electricity grid in South Sudan
This article presents a case study of the struggles of South Sudan, the newest country to develop a new electricity grid, and the strategic choices it faces in a post-conflict situation. In addition to the energy trilemma around security, price, and sustainability, we add a fourth consideration for policy, namely the distribution of benefits and ability of government both to provide collective goods and to use them to reinforce its power in the c…
Profile of the Sharing Economy in the Developing World
Sharing economy companies are proliferating across the developing world, yet we know very little about their nature, including whether and how they are different from their Western counterparts, and whether they offer new development paths as discussed in the introduction. In theory, the internet can level the playing field to allow the poor in the developing world to share information, access capital, and cooperate in joint ventures in new ways.…
Broken Windows
Corruption, or misuse of public office for private gain, is continually in the headlines. From hunger strikes in India to scandals around defence procurement in Canada, attention to corruption is growing. Corruption has been linked to weak economic growth and development outcomes (Kulshreshtha, 2008, p. 558). Though the problems of corruption have led aid agencies to recognize the fundamental importance of good governance, progress has been halti…
Did ISI fail and is neoliberalism the answer for Latin America? Re-assessing common wisdom regarding economic policies in the region
The second phase of Import Substituting Industrialization, commonly known as ISI2, involved the move in Latin America to "heavy" industrialization, from around 1950-80. This period of economic history has been reviled on both the Left and the Right as being one of either heightened dependency or one demonstrating the clear failure of state intervention in the economy. In this research note, a basic statistical analysis is used to back up other de…
The Kurdish Mirage
Distributional effects of dollarisation
Over the past two years Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala have adopted the US dollar as a legal currency in their countries. Several other Latin American countries, including Argentina, are currently discussing dollarisation. In this policy paper we look at the existing evidence for answers to two basic questions. First, under what general circumstances might dollarisation make sense? Second, are there clearly differentiated winners and losers f…
Ranking the Presses
N umerous studies in political sci- ence have rated and evaluated various elements of importance to the discipline, including graduate programs, journal quality, and even the contribution of individuals within the discipline itself. 1 We could not discover, however, any study evaluating the quality of aca
The hollow core
Corporations are playing increasingly significant roles in trying to resolve global governance issues through corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and practices, in response to pressure by NGOs and cognizant consumers, and to activist shareholders. Many firms claim that they “can do well by doing good”, advertising their CSR initiatives as part of their brand. These pressures have converged towards an institutionalization of CSR, includ…
Developing State Capacity
The emergence of “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) among Western multinationals reflects doubts about governments in the South to regulate production as well as a vacuum of global regulatory capacity and authority. In response to criticism, media shaming, and protests from NGOs and civil society organizations centered around labor and environmental concerns, corporations began to organize a global public regime, as reflected in the Global C…
Renewable Energy in Central America
We are at an historical crossroads. The latest IPCC report gives dire predictions about potential losses from climate change, ranging from high sea levels to deterioration of agricultural production. Although emissions are still concentrated in the North, the most‐rapid growth of emissions is occurring in the South, suggesting the need for major changes in the trajectory of its economic development. Massive aid flows for climate‐change mitigation…
Understanding the Deep Roots of Success in Effective Civil Services
As discussed in the preface to this edition, there are three cases in the developing world which stand out in regard to corruption: Singapore, Hong Kong, and Chile. While all have had differing rates of economic growth and their own particular struggles with governance, they are the only consistently high performers over long periods of time. To better understand the roots of their success, this article compares the three cases with two other cas…
Closing Remarks on Culture and Corruption
The Bottom Line
Throughout the 1980s, Latin America experimented with financial liberalisation, which was supposed to solve the perpetual weaknesses of low savings, lack of access to capital, and the resulting stultifying effects on growth. We find that fundamental weaknesses in regional financial systems continue. We suggest that there are three basic policy reactions: a deepening of neoliberal policies; a neo-structural reform of them; and a Bolivarian social …
Turning Privatization Upside Down
For more than the last three decades, conventional economic wisdom, the dominant policy advice, and lending have been based on a growing economic literature that seeks to demonstrate that liberalization and privatization lead to superior outcomes, including higher levels of investment, accountability, and technology development. However, a new wave of Latin American leaders in countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil, among other…
Response to Critics of “Ranking the Presses”
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Ranking the Presses
N umerous studies in political sci- ence have rated and evaluated various elements of importance to the discipline, including graduate programs, journal quality, and even the contribution of individuals within the discipline itself. 1 We could not discover, however, any study evaluating the quality of aca
The New Institutionalism
This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional constraints on decision makers, the new institutionalism correctly points out the limits of a rational choice framework of economic decision making. However, by failing to explain the sources and avenues of modifications of those constraints, the new institutionalism is unable to provide a s…
Latin America at century's end
Toward a Theory of Global Regime Governance
(2003). Toward a Theory of Global Regime Governance. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 4-27
Paradigmatic Crisis in International Economic Governance
Anti-globalisation protests and increasing dissonance internationally, including a host of new leftist leaders in Latin America and insider criticism are the signs of paradigmatic crisis for both neoliberalism and “free” trade agreements. This introductory essay seeks to demonstrate that such phenomena are not isolated events of passing unhappiness, but can be interpreted as part of a long-term shift, reflecting changes in the experience and oppo…
Distributional effects of dollarisation
Over the past two years Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala have adopted the US dollar as a legal currency in their countries. Several other Latin American countries, including Argentina, are currently discussing dollarisation. In this policy paper we look at the existing evidence for answers to two basic questions. First, under what general circumstances might dollarisation make sense? Second, are there clearly differentiated winners and losers f…
Deregulation and Participation
Amidst the wave of privatization and “deregulation” across the globe, a new set of regulatory structures is being created. The fact that deregulation actually involves “re-regulation” has been acknowledged in the recent literature, but the tension between regulation and public participation has been understudied in these new structures. While some private markets need effective regulation to reduce transactions costs and ensure stable market rule…
Should Economists Rule the World? Trends and Implications of Leadership Patterns in the Developing World, 1960—2005
This article examines more carefully the oft-made hypotheses that (1) “technocrats” or politicians with an economics background are increasingly common and (2) that this “improvement” in qualifications will lead to improvements in economic policy. The article presents a database on the qualifications of leaders of the world's major countries over the past four decades. The article finds that while there is evidence for increasing “technification,…
Did ISI fail and is neoliberalism the answer for Latin America? Re-assessing common wisdom regarding economic policies in the region
The second phase of Import Substituting Industrialization, commonly known as ISI2, involved the move in Latin America to "heavy" industrialization, from around 1950-80. This period of economic history has been reviled on both the Left and the Right as being one of either heightened dependency or one demonstrating the clear failure of state intervention in the economy. In this research note, a basic statistical analysis is used to back up other de…
Turning Privatization Upside Down
For more than the last three decades, conventional economic wisdom, the dominant policy advice, and lending have been based on a growing economic literature that seeks to demonstrate that liberalization and privatization lead to superior outcomes, including higher levels of investment, accountability, and technology development. However, a new wave of Latin American leaders in countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil, among other…
The Bottom Line
Throughout the 1980s, Latin America experimented with financial liberalisation, which was supposed to solve the perpetual weaknesses of low savings, lack of access to capital, and the resulting stultifying effects on growth. We find that fundamental weaknesses in regional financial systems continue. We suggest that there are three basic policy reactions: a deepening of neoliberal policies; a neo-structural reform of them; and a Bolivarian social …
New Zealand wine
New Zealand’s remarkable transformation from a wool and meat producer to a highly diversified economy is one of the more remarkable economic stories of the post-World War II period. Part of this diversification is tied to New Zealand’s development as a world-class wine producer, a remarkable feat given its small population. New Zealand’s institutional arrangements provide an example for other small agriculturally-based producers wishing to move t…
The South African wine industry
Examining the South African wine industry reveals an impressive level of success, but one whose long-term prospects are undermined by bifurcation within the industry. The Triple Helix institutions work well in one side of the industry, but are weak or missing in the other. We thus have two industries, one highly successful at reaching world markets with quality wine, and the other focused on local or bulk wine markets. The challenges to cooperati…
US wine industry
The US wine industry is frequently thought to be California – an undoubted success story. However, three other regions – New York, Washington State and Oregon – have wine industries facing mixed fortunes. This paper reviews the progress of each, demonstrating how the triple helix model identifies key relationship advantages and problems that explain performance rather better than natural advantages or market conditions. The paper reviews the mixe…
Mapping out the Triple Helix
As of 2010, the OECD countries spent over $968 billion annually on research and development (R&D), with China spending another $179 billion, Russia $32 billion and Taiwan $24 billion. Evidently, the world’s policymakers have concluded that investment in R&D is a key to their future economic growth. As globalisation takes place, and developing countries increasingly show their ability to compete in labour-intensive manufactures, the race is on to …
Institutional stickiness and coordination issues in an idiosyncratic environment
This article explores the foundations of an industry whose rate of growth is surprising to most observers. Starting from an historical institutional (HI) perspective, we demonstrate that moderately adaptive institutions have been instrumental to the success of the Ontario wine industry up to this point. An analysis of coordination using a Triple Helix framework reveals, however, that the particularities of the institutional design have more recen…
Institutional design matters
Triple Helix theory prescribes coordinated actions among government, research institutions and industry to achieve growth. However, the Brazilian wine industry case shows that simply having the institutions is not enough – the institutional framework matters. This paper shows three problems in the Brazilian institutional design that hamper wine quality improvements and impede the development of an effective, fully-fledged Triple Helix model in th…
Australia as a Triple Helix exemplar
Australia’s phenomenal success in developing as a global wine exporter deserves more attention from the point of view of economic and competitiveness strategy. Its success embodies the expectations of the Triple Helix that there will be institutions explicitly oriented towards developing end extending industry-relevant research, and that industry targets will be coordinated with public, collective aims. Australia stretches this framework even fur…
The Kurdish Mirage
Renewable Energy in Central America
We are at an historical crossroads. The latest IPCC report gives dire predictions about potential losses from climate change, ranging from high sea levels to deterioration of agricultural production. Although emissions are still concentrated in the North, the most‐rapid growth of emissions is occurring in the South, suggesting the need for major changes in the trajectory of its economic development. Massive aid flows for climate‐change mitigation…
Understanding the Deep Roots of Success in Effective Civil Services
As discussed in the preface to this edition, there are three cases in the developing world which stand out in regard to corruption: Singapore, Hong Kong, and Chile. While all have had differing rates of economic growth and their own particular struggles with governance, they are the only consistently high performers over long periods of time. To better understand the roots of their success, this article compares the three cases with two other cas…
Broken Windows
Corruption, or misuse of public office for private gain, is continually in the headlines. From hunger strikes in India to scandals around defence procurement in Canada, attention to corruption is growing. Corruption has been linked to weak economic growth and development outcomes (Kulshreshtha, 2008, p. 558). Though the problems of corruption have led aid agencies to recognize the fundamental importance of good governance, progress has been halti…
Closing Remarks on Culture and Corruption
Profile of the Sharing Economy in the Developing World
Sharing economy companies are proliferating across the developing world, yet we know very little about their nature, including whether and how they are different from their Western counterparts, and whether they offer new development paths as discussed in the introduction. In theory, the internet can level the playing field to allow the poor in the developing world to share information, access capital, and cooperate in joint ventures in new ways.…
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