Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies

P.B. Anand is Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development and Head of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. He is a member of the Council of the Development Studies Association and a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. He previously worked in a development bank in India and managed an executive education programme portfolio at Bradford for the staff of China Development Bank (2007-13) and the Aga Khan Foundation (2013-15). He was the principal author and team leader of the Mongolia Human Development Report 2011 and contributed to UNDP studies on climate change, extractive economies, and sustainable development. He is the author of Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries (2007) and many papers on global public goods, access to water and smart cities. With Flavio Comim and Shailaja Fennell, he edited New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Shailaja Fennell is Reader in Regional Transformation and Economic Security at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and a member of the governing council of the Development Studies Association (UK). She has undertaken more than two decades of research in both Asian and African countries, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, DFID, Oxfam and ASEAN. Her previous publications include Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development (2010), and she has published papers in the fields of comparative regional development to examine how the lives of rural and urban communities have been affected by the nature and directives of development policy. Flavio Comim is a Development Economist and an Associate Professor of Economics at the IQS School of Management, Ramon Llull University in Spain and an Affiliated Lecturer at Land Economy University of Cambridge. He has worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been a consultant for UNESCO, WHO, UNEP (UN Environment Programme), and ILO in several development projects. He has co-edited several books, including The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications (2008), with Mozaffar Qizilbash and Sabina Alkire; Capabilities and Happiness (2008), with Luigino Bruni and Maurizio Pugno; Capabilities, Gender, Equality (2014), with Martha Nussbaum; and New Frontiers of Human Development with Shailaja Fennell and P.B. Anand (2018).