Christopher Cramer

Biographic Data

ID100568
NAMEChristopher Cramer
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMECramer
SIGNATURECRAMER C
AFFILIATIONSSOAS University of London
ORCID0000-0003-1792-7374
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS76
TOTAL CITATIONS272
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT35
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Imagined communities of conflict and development: Shifting Ideas and Practice, 1989–2023

    Open AccessChristopher CramerARTICLEConflict Security and Development2025Cited by: 1References: 58

  • Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John SenderARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2025

    We discuss scoping research carried out over a short period of time in Majakaneng in Bojanala District in the platinum belt in South Africa. The research aims to gather and analyse evidence on the effects of investments in high-value agricultural exports, in this specific case the production of blueberries, on the well-being of poor women. High-value agricultural exports have been identified as offering a particularly promising path to structural…

  • Missed Monteggia Injuries in Children and Adolescents: A Treatment Algorithm

    Open AccessKristofer Wintges, Christopher Cramer et al.ARTICLEChildren2024

    Monteggia injuries are rare childhood injuries. In 25-50% of cases, however, they continue to be overlooked, leading to a chronic Monteggia injury. Initially, the chronic Monteggia injury is only characterized by a moderate motion deficit, which is often masked by compensatory movements. Later, however, there is a progressive valgus deformity, neuropathy of the ulnar nerve and a progressive deformity of the radial head ("mushroom deformity") with…

  • Desperate, deceived and disappointed: Women’s lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Uganda

    Open AccessJohn Sender, Christopher CramerARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2022Cited by: 2References: 55

    Life history interviews from Ethiopia and Uganda, organised around experiences of wage labour, provide rich evidence on the working conditions of many poor, rural women and on what leads them to work for wages. The life histories confirm and illuminate arguments based on large-scale socio-economic surveys carried out in these two countries. Further, findings from the surveys and life histories challenge an influential literature that not only cel…

  • Classification and Roundabout Production in High-value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, Jonathan Di John et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change2022Cited by: 2References: 48

    Developing countries are balance-of-payments constrained. In this context, high-value agricultural exports can make a greater contribution to structural change than development economists and developing country governments have typically acknowledged. This is thanks to dramatic recent changes in agricultural production, consumption and trade. These transformations are obscured by a simple classification system that has not adapted to changing pat…

  • Wage Employment in Africa

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Most economists think there is little wage employment in Africa and doubt the potential for faster growth of paid employment. They favour supply-side measures encouraging self-employment. The statistical base of conventional views is extremely unreliable. Even the poor statistics that are available do not support pessimism about wage employment in African countries, which has been expanding (and as a share of total employment). Huge numbers of wa…

  • High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Chapter 10 highlights policy priorities capable of generating large productivity improvements, balance of payments improvements, and big increases in employment, especially for rural women. Growth, structural transformation, and welfare improvements in African economies require a sustained high investment rate, led by public sector spending to maximize crowding in of private investment; they require state support for the development of ‘national …

  • The Trade Imperative

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Economists from very different backgrounds often counsel against a fast growth of imports—and it is certainly true that the balance of payments constraint all too easily derails growth episodes. But the level of output is more important than an obsession with the obsessive pursuit of macroeconomic balance; macroeconomic policy has to serve productive goals rather than vice versa; and policy needs to enable rapid import growth to raise the overall…

  • Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    The evidence does not support gloomy generalizations about an irreversible African environmental crisis or pessimistic arguments that barriers to adopting Green Revolution technologies are insuperable. Although evidence on agricultural technology in Africa is often unreliable, food output and grain yields do appear to have risen strongly in some African economies.. Huge variations in crop yields, including within similar agro-ecological zones, su…

  • Uneven, Contradictory, and Brutal Economic Development in Africa

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Even where capitalist expansion brings about dramatic and progressive changes, it is always and everywhere contradictory, uneven, and brutal. All good things do not go together. African economic experiences have—similarly—been contradictory. That is one reason why efforts to fit African economic experiences into linear narratives of ‘tragic growth’ or ‘Africa Rising’ are doomed. African economic development is also extremely diverse. This variati…

  • Varieties of Common Sense

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Policy officials are often influenced by two broad varieties of conventional wisdom: the set of ideas broadly associated with neoclassical economics; and those ideas flowing from third worldist, anti-imperialist, and structuralist development economics. We show how these apparently opposing perspectives often have a surprising amount in common. Reflexes of ‘impossibilism’ and ‘naive optimism’ are often shared across an ideological divide. Thus, p…

  • Unbalanced Development

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Balance is a powerful idea in economics—in equilibrium economics, in strategies of balanced growth, and many other strategies. This chapter argues for a different understanding of the history of capitalism and, therefore, of policy and strategy. The idea of imbalance is a springboard to explore the ideas of Albert Hirschman. These include the concept of linkages and the dynamics of unbalanced growth (pressures, tensions, and disequilibrium as the…

  • Investment, Wage Goods, and Industrial Policy

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Raising and sustaining long-run growth rates is made more difficult by the complexity of economic growth and by the complexity of growth theory debates. Nonetheless, the investment rate is central to long-run growth and development. Growth sustained by high investment rates will also involve structural change: a shift of resources into high-productivity economic activities. This chapter combines discussion of investment—why it matters, what econo…

  • Working Out the Solution to Rural Poverty

    Open AccessChristopher Cramer, John Sender et al.CHAPTERAfrican Economic Development2020

    Ideas about poverty and poverty reduction policy are clouded by misleading measures and unreliable evidence. National statistical organizations (NSOs) are under-resourced and the collection and dissemination of data are compromised by political pressures. Allegedly pro-poor policies have had an inegalitarian impact in rural Africa. Conventional views expecting that support spread across smallholder farmers will reduce poverty are based on skewed …

  • Successes and Failures of Industrial Policy in Transition Economies of Europe and Asia

    Vladimir Popov, Владимир Попов et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter discusses the achievements and failures of various models of industrial policy in post-communist countries. If industrial policy is needed, how are industries that have to be supported to be selected? What are the appropriate tools/instruments to support particular industries? Eastern European countries in general did not have any explicit industrial policy, either via tax concessions and/or subsidies, or via under/overpricing the ex…

  • Industrial Policies in the BRICS

    Fernando Santiago, Fernando C Santiago et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter discusses industrial policy in the BRICS. It contributes to the literature in three ways. First, by approaching the BRICS as a single entity, it documents the gradual buy-in to the concept of BRICS by the participating countries, and their efforts at strengthening collaboration, including on industrial development matters. Second, it corroborates that differences in individual development paths influence the expected contribution of …

  • Latin American Industrial Policies: A Comparative Perspective

    José Antonio Ocampo, Gabriel Porcile et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter analyses the evolution of industrial policy in the four largest Latin American economies—Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia—using Korea as a benchmark. Three phases in industrial policy and industrial transformation are identified: a period of state-led industrialization between the end of the Second World War and around 1980, which came to an end with the debt crisis of the 1980s; the 1990s, when the region abandoned industrial…

  • Globalization Narratives and Industrial Policy

    Daniel E Esser, James H Mittelman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    Competing narratives of globalization constitute parameters that both constrain industrial policymaking and provide opportunities to negotiate alternatives. Such representations of globalization are powerful precisely because they can become objectified as policy. They are also compelling because the literature on industrial policy has so far largely left them out. Focusing on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), this chapt…

  • Greening Industrial Policy

    John A Mathews, Arkebe Oqubay et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    The scope of industrial policy is broadened in this chapter to encompass energy, materials, and finance. Given the unprecedented scale of the industrialization of India, China, and the late latecomers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the traditional options of fossil fuels, linear economy, and generic finance have been found wanting, for reasons of immediate environmental spoliation but also to do with countries running up against geopolitical…

  • Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South East Asia

    Rajah Rasiah, Arkebe Oqubay et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    The latecomer industrialization thesis has acted as a powerful instrument in promoting industrialization. However, there is little explanation in the literature as to why some economies that attempted to industrialize are facing premature de-industrialization. This chapter provides an assessment of industrialization in the South East Asian market economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, examining policies that s…

  • Grand Challenges, Industrial Policy, and Public Value

    Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    Policymakers are increasingly embracing the idea of using industrial and innovation policy to tackle societal ‘grand challenges’ such as the climate emergency. In this article we argue that challenge-led policies require a new conceptual and analytical framework that has at its core the idea of confronting the direction of growth—growth that is, for example, more inclusive and sustainable. Such framework should focus on public value creation thro…

  • The European Union’s Industrial Policy

    Michael Landesmann, Michael A Landesmann et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter reviews the industrial policy in the European Union in the light of the revived interest in the subject and the most pressing challenges ahead. In the current global context these challenges are (i) to keep pace at the technology frontier with the technologically most advanced economies; (ii) to meet the challenges of fast catching-up emerging economies; (iii) to contribute to the convergence and cohesion processes within the Europea…

  • Global Value Chains and Regionally Coordinated Industrial Policy: The Case of Asean

    Budi A Djafar, William Milberg et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    The well-documented failures of the liberal policy regimes of the period 1980–2007 to generate sustained economic growth and development have led in the past ten years to a renewed interest in industrial policy. The re-emergence of industrial policy occurs in a new world of well-developed GVCs in major industries with integrated regional economies. This chapter assesses the success of industrial policy in this context by considering the case of t…

  • The Theory and Practice of Industrial Policy

    Arkebe Oqubay, Christopher Cramer et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter reviews the theory and practice of industrial policy, focusing on three key themes. First, it presents industrial policy as a vehicle by which manufacturing (and other dynamic and high-productivity services and agricultural activities that share technological and linkage spillovers) drives structural change. It also underlines the strategic role of exports, especially as a source of international learning and relaxing balance-of-paym…

  • European Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective

    Patrizio Bianchi, Sandrine Labory et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2020

    This chapter examines industrial policy implemented in European countries across time, especially after the Second World War and in recent years. It briefly shows that industrialization never occurs without strong supporting industrial policy to provide the enabling conditions for the deep structural changes involved, such as infrastructure and capabilities, especially human capital. Industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is…