School of Social and Political Science

Background

Qualifications

• BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics (University of Oxford)
• MSc Political Economy of Development, Department of Economics (SOAS)
• PhD, Department of Economics, (SOAS)

Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD theses that focus on the following areas: Political economy of development, the state and economic development and change in Africa, industrialization and industrial policy in Africa, political economy of institutions in Africa, comparative political economy of Asia/Africa

Current PhD Students

• Antonia Juelich
• Keskine Owusu Poku

Publications

Book

Reviews of Turbulence and Order in Economic Development

Articles

'Studying Political Settlements in Africa' African Affairs 2017, 116, 464, 508 - 525 (P Behuria, L Burr and H Gray)

'Decolonising online development studies? Emancipatory aspirations and critical reflections - a case study' Third World Quarterly, 2017, 38 (2), 270 - 290 (S Spigel, H Gray, Gray, B Bompani, K Bardosh, J Smith)

'Access Orders and the 'New' New Institutional Economics of Development' Development and Change, (January 2016) 47, 1, 51 - 75 

'The Political Economy of Grand Corruption in Tanzania' African Affairs, 114, 456, (July 2015) 382 - 403,

'Industrial Policyand the Political Settlement in Tanzania:  Aspects of Continuity and Change Since Independence', Review of African Political Economy, 40.136 (2013), 185-201.

Book chapters

'Tanzania: From Institutional Hiatus to the Return of Policy-Based Lending' in Jones et al The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Developing Countries: Risk and Reputation - Emily Jones - Oxford University Press (2020) 

'Understanding and Deploying the Political Settlements Framework' in Dictionary of African Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019)

‘Good Governance and Growth in Africa: What can we learn from Tanzania?' in V. Padayachaee (ed.), The Political Economy of Africa (London: Routledge, 2010) (with Mushtaq Khan).

Working Papers

'The political economy of the steel sector in Tanzania: power relations and patterns of decline and growth over time' Working Paper ACE SOAS Consortium, 2021

'The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Tanzania' (2018) Working Paper for Navigating Global Banking Standards, Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford

'Situating Social Policy in Economic Transformation: A Conceptual Framework' Background Paper for the Tanzania Human Development Report 2017. (mimeo, 2016, with Marc Wuyts)

'Reframing African political economy: clientelism, rents and accumulation as drivers of capitalist transformation', LSE International Development Working Paper Series, No. 159 (2014) (with Lindsay Whitfield).

Policy publications

2018 ‘Politics and Business in Tanzania – A Response’ Chapter 3 in Tanzania: Institutional Diagnostics edited by François Bourguignon and Sam Wangwe, https://edi.opml.co.uk/resource/tanzania-institutional-diagnostic-chapter-3/

'The place of social policy in economic transformation' in Tanzania Human Development Report 2017. Ministry of Finance, UNDP, Economic and Social Research Foundation, Dar-es -Salaam, Chapter 2

‘Economic transformation in the making: going beyond growth’ In: Tanzania Human Development Report 2014: Economic Transformation for Human Development. Ministry of Finance, UNDP, Economic and Social Research Foundation, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, Chapter 2, 22-44. ISBN 9789987770007 (http://esrf.or.tz/docs/THDR2014-Main.pdf).

‘Governance for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence and New Directions Reviewed’. Background paper for the DFID/World Bank Conference on Governance for Economic Growth in Developing Countries: What Matters and Can We Measure It?  June 2007. Available at www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/RET422.pdf

‘State Weakness in Developing Countries and Strategies of Institutional Reform – Operational Implications for Anti-Corruption Policy and A Case Study of Tanzania’. Mushtaq Khan and Hazel Gray for DFID, UK, September 2006.