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  • Wade, Robert H. (2025). China as leading innovator, and as challenger to US hegemony? Review of Keynesian Economics, 13(4), 519 - 535. https://doi.org/10.4337/roke.2025.04.04 picture_as_pdf
  • Batista Jr., Paulo Nogueira, Wade, Robert H. (2025). Will the IMF survive to 100? Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 45(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572025-3742 picture_as_pdf
  • Klingler-Vidra, Robyn, Chalmers, Adam William, Wade, Robert H. (2025). Who's governing the market? Bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state. World Development, 191, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106979 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2023). The world development report 2022: finance for an equitable recovery in the context of the international debt crisis. Development and Change, 54(5), 1354-1373. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12796 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2023). Conversations with Gyorgy Ligeti. Challenge, https://doi.org/10.1080/05775132.2023.2225324 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (2021). The opening of minds towards more active government that steers the production structure. Revista de Economia Mundial, (59), 41 - 65. https://doi.org/10.33776/rem.v0i59.5199 picture_as_pdf
  • Klingler-Vidra, Robyn, Wade, Robert (2020). Science and technology policies and the middle-income trap: lessons from Vietnam. The Journal of Development Studies, 56(4), 717 - 731. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1595598 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (2020). Europe in a turbulent world: four comments. Global Policy, 11(1), 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12795 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (2018). The developmental state: dead or alive? Development and Change, 49(2), 518-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12381
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2017). The German problem. The Economist,
  • Wade, Robert H. (2017). The American paradox: ideology of free markets and the hidden practice of directional thrust. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41(3), 859 - 880. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew064
  • Wade, Robert H. (2017). Empire spawned a new economic paradigm. Financial Times,
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2017). Is Trump wrong on trade? A partial defense based on production and employment. Real world economic review, 43-63. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2016). Industrial policy in response to the middle-income trap and the Third Wave of the digital revolution. Global Policy, 7(4), 469-480. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12364
  • Wade, Robert H. (2016). Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 36(3), 646-663. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572016v36n03a10
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2016). The role of the state in escaping the middle-income trap: the case for smart industrial policy. METU Studies in Development, 21-42.
  • Wade, Robert H. (2016). Boulevard to broken dreams, part 1: the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank’senvironmental and indigenous peoples’ norms. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 36(1), 214-230. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572016v36n01a12
  • Vestergaard, Jakob, Wade, Robert H. (2015). Still in the woods: gridlock in the IMF and the World Bank puts multilateralism at risk. Global Policy, 6(1), 1 - 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12178
  • Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla, Wade, Robert H. (2015). From control by capital to control of capital: Iceland's boom and bust, and the IMF's unorthodox rescue package. Review of International Political Economy, 22(1), 103-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2014.920400
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2015). Rethinking the Ukraine crisis. Economic and Political Weekly, L(9).
  • Wade, Robert H., Vestergaard, Jakob (2015). Why is the IMF at an impasse, and what can be done about it? Global Policy, 6(3), 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12264
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). The Piketty phenomenon and the future of inequality. Real-World Economics Review, 69, 2-17.
  • Wade, Robert H. (2014). Market versus state or market with state: how to impart directional thrust. Development and Change, 45(4), 777-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12099
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). Reply to Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38(4), 991-992. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu001
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). Current thinking about global trade policy. Economic and Political Weekly, 49(6), 18-21.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). The Piketty phenomenon: why has Capital become a publishing sensation? International Affairs, 90(5), 1069-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12157
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2013). China-Japan island dispute the other side of the story. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(10), 27-31.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2013). Letter: islands' story. The Economist, 406(8821).
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2013). Capitalism and democracy at cross-purposes. New Zealand Sociology, 28(3), 208-236.
  • Vestergaard, Jakob, Wade, Robert H. (2013). Protecting power: how Western states retain the dominant voice in the World Bank’s governance. World Development, 46, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.031
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2012). The politics behind World Bank statistics the case of China's income. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(25), 17-18.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2012). Return of industrial policy? International Review of Applied Economics, 26(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2011.640312
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2012). The fight over the global development agenda: how the west tries to marginalise UNCTAD. Intereconomics, 47(5), 304-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-012-0432-9
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2011). Muddy waters: inside the World Bank as it struggled with the Narmada projects. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(40), 44-45.
  • Wade, Robert H. (2011). Emerging world order? From multipolarity to multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF. Politics & Society, 39(3), 347-378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329211415503
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2011). Income inequality: should we worry about global trends. European Journal of Development Research, 23(4), 513-520. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2011.24
  • Wade, Robert (2011). Why Justin Lin’s door-opening argument matters for development economics. Global Policy, 2(1), 115-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00049.x
  • Wade, Robert Hunter, Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla (2011). Iceland's meltdown: the rise and fall of international banking in the North Atlantic. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 31(5), 684-697. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-31572011000500001
  • Wade, Robert Hunter, Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla (2010). Lessons from Iceland. New Left Review, 65, 5-29.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2010). After the crisis: industrial policy and the developmental state in low-income countries. Global Policy, 1(2), 150-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00036.x
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2010). The state of the World Bank. Challenge, 53(4), 43-67. https://doi.org/10.2753/0577-5132530403
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Beware what you wish for: lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics. Review of International Political Economy, 16(1), 106-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290802524141
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Accountability gone wrong: the World Bank, non-governmental organisations and the US government in a fight over China. New Political Economy, 14(1), 25-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563460802671220
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). From global imbalances to global reorganisations. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(4), 539-562. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep032
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Iceland as Icarus. Challenge, 52(3), 5-33. https://doi.org/10.2753/0577-5132520301
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Rethinking industrial policy for low income countries. African Development Review, 21(2), 352-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2009.00213.x
  • Izurieta, Alex, Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Robert Wade on the global financial crisis. Development and Change, 40(6), 1153-1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01564.x
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Steering out of crisis. Economic and Political Weekly, 44(13), 39-46.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). The global slump. Challenge, 52(5), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.2753/0577-5132520501
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2008). Financial regime change? New Left Review, 53, 5-21.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2008). The First-World debt crisis of 2007-2010 in global perspective. Challenge, 51(4), 23-54. https://doi.org/10.2753/0577-5132510402
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2004). Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality? World Development, 32(4), 567-589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.10.007
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2004). On the causes of increasing world poverty and inequality, or why the Matthew effect prevails. New Political Economy, 9(2), 163-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/1356346042000218050
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2004). The ringmaster of Doha. New Left Review, 25(Januar), 146-152.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2003). The invisible hand of the American empire. Ethics and International Affairs, 17(2), 77-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2003.tb00440.x
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2003). What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of 'development space'. Review of International Political Economy, 10(4), 621-644. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290310001601902
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2002). Bridging the digital divide: new route to development or new form of dependency? Global Governance, 8(4), 443-466.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2002). US hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people and ideas. Review of International Political Economy, 9(2), 215-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290110126092
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2001). The rising inequality of world income distribution. Finance and Development, 38(4).
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2001). Winners and losers: the global distribution of income is becoming more unequal: that should be a matter of greater concern than it is. The Economist, 359(8219), 93-97.
    • Book
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2003). Governing the market: economic theory and the role of government in East Asian industrialization. Princeton University Press.
    • Chapter
  • Eitinger, Lisa, Wade, Robert H. (2024). US 'hegemony' in the World Bank. In The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (pp. 118-128). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204780.00021
  • Wade, Robert H. (2023). Conflict between great powers is back with vengeance: the new Cold War between the US and China plus Russia. In International Political Economy Series (pp. 13-35). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20702-0_2 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (2022). The social construction of the Washington Consensus on international trade policy. In The Anthropology of Power, Agency, and Morality: The Enduring Legacy of F. G. Bailey (pp. 166-181). University of Manchester Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158260.00019 picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2020). Growth, inequality and poverty. In Global Political Economy . Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2019). East Asia. In Nayyar, Deepak (Ed.), Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations . Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2019). Catch-up and constraints in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Oqubay, Arkebe, Ohno, Kenichi (Eds.), How Nations Learn: Technological Learning, Industrial Policy, and Catch-up . Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2018). Why has income inequality been neglected in economics and public policy? In Arestis, Philip, Sawyer, Malcolm (Eds.), Inequality: Trends, Causes, Consequences, Relevant Policies (pp. 323-365). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2017). Is Trump wrong about trade? A partial defence, based on production and employment. In Fullbrook, Edward, Morgan, Jamie (Eds.), Trumponomics: Causes and Consequences . World Economics Association.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2017). Global growth, inequality, and poverty: the globalization argument and the "political" science of economics. In Ravenhill, John (Ed.), Global political economy (pp. 319-355). Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2016). Economists’ ethics in the build-up to the Great Recession. In DeMartino, George F., McCloskey, Deirdre N. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics (pp. 268-296). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766635.013.030
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). Growth, inequality, and poverty: arguments, evidence, and economists. In Ravenhill, John (Ed.), Global political economy (pp. 305-343). Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert H., Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla (2012). The Iceland crisis. In Toporowski, Jan, Michell, Jo (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Issues in Finance (pp. 151-164). Edward Elgar.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2011). How can low-income countries accelerate their catch up with high-income countries? In Noman, Akbar, Botchwey, Kwesi, Stein, Howard, Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Eds.), Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies (pp. 246-272). Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2011). Globalization, growth, poverty, inequality, resentment and imperialism. In Ravenhill, John (Ed.), Global Political Economy (pp. 373-409). Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2010). Beware what you wish for: lessons for IPE from the transformation of economics. In Phillips, Nicola, Weaver, Catherine (Eds.), International Poltitical Economy: Debating the Past (pp. 92-104). Routledge.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2010). The market as means rather than master: the crisis of development and the future role of the state. In Khan, Shahrukh Rafi, Christiansen, Jens (Eds.), Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means Rather Than Master (pp. 21-46). Routledge.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2010). Is the globalization consensus dead? In Castree, Noel, Chatterton, Paul A., Heynen, Nik, Larner, Wendy, Wright, Melissa W. (Eds.), The Point Is to Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis (pp. 142-165). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Dollar, David, Wade, Robert Hunter (2009). Trade liberalization and economic growth: “does trade liberalization contribute to economic prosperity?”. In Haas, Peter M., Hird, John A., McBratney, Beth (Eds.), Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations . Congressional Quarterly Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2008). Globalization, growth, poverty and inequality. In Ravenhill, J (Ed.), Global Political Economy . Oxford University Press.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2008). The Washington Consensus. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2008). The post-Asia-crisis system of global financial regulation and why developing countries should be worried about it. In Lessons From the Asian Financial Crisis . Routledge.
    • Online resource
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2016). Income distribution and the UK referendum – Professor Robert Wade.
  • Wade, Robert (2016). Neoliberalism and industrial policy in Georgia – Professor Robert Wade.
  • Wade, Robert (2016). ‘Scale-ups’ are the true engines of growth – Professor Robert Wade.
  • Wade, Robert (2015). Fiscal compact treaty adds to chaos in Europe – Robert Wade.
  • Wade, Robert (2015). Get profit share to support a more equal income distribution – Robert Wade.
  • Wade, Robert (2015). Robert Wade takes umbrage at defence of corporate managers and short-termism in the Financial Times.
  • Wade, Robert (2015). Living where you don’t make the rules: Development in Palestine – one of the world’s last colonies.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2015). “Wow!” – Robert Wade’s glowing review of Carles Boix, Political Order and Inequality.
  • Putzel, James, Wade, Robert Hunter (2015). ID Professors speak out on Greek exit.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2015). The Ukraine crisis is not what it seems.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2015). Robert Wade: Rethinking the Ukraine Crisis.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). Economic and political development under demi-sovereignty: the West Bank.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2014). An economics fit for the 21st century.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2013). Current thinking about global trade policy – Robert Wade’s frustration at UNCTAD.
  • Wade, Robert, Vestergaard, Jakob (2012). The G20 has served its purpose and should be replaced with a Global Economic Council on a firmer constitutional foundation.
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2012). Massive public service reform for its dysfunctional state and a Euro exit and devaluation are the only way for Greece to break its current ‘doom loop’.
    • Working paper
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2003). What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’. (Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1 31). Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Blog post
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (5 December 2025) Despite its stunning innovation record China is not yet a challenger to American hegemony. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (13 October 2025) Trump, Gaza and the US political maelstrom. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter, Vestergaard, Jakob (13 October 2025) The political maelstrom in the US. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (14 May 2025) A second look at the World Bank, the global economic disorder, and a possible deal. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H., Viskum Vestergaard, Jakob (6 March 2025) Could Trump and Xi break the deadlock in the World Bank? International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert H. (3 March 2025) A US withdrawal from the IMF would have little effect on the dollar. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (11 February 2025) Will the IMF survive Donald Trump's presidency? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter, Seckler, David (9 December 2024) Global warming and cooling, and the development dilemma. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter, Seckler, David (14 November 2024) Prospects for containing global warming, based on a short account of the Earth's climate mechanisms. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (25 September 2024) What lies behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (21 June 2024) The 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit - high stakes, high drama. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (26 April 2024) Long read: Brazil’s G20 summit in November 2024: high stakes, high drama. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (22 February 2024) Long read the beginning of the end for the US dollar's global dominance. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (7 December 2023) Professor Robert Wade on limited trade protections. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (30 January 2023) How will the Russia-Ukraine war end? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (21 November 2022) Restoring the firewall between capital and democracy in the capitalist economy. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (30 March 2022) Why the US and Nato have long wanted Russia to attack Ukraine. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (5 March 2022) A ‘diplomatic solution’ to the war in Ukraine. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (2 March 2022) A ‘diplomatic solution’ to the war in Ukraine. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Wade, Robert Hunter (4 April 2017) Empire spawned a new economic paradigm. LSE Department of International Development Blog.