ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

Development in translation: everyday statecraft, housing as social infrastructure, and the production of racialised deservingness

Development interventions that promise inclusion often result in displacement, reinforcing stigma and producing new forms of exclusion. Yet less attention has been paid to how these contradictory outcomes emerge by reshaping local processes of negotiation, interpretation and cate...

Couples can be Tractable: New Algorithms and Hardness Results for the Hospitals/Residents Problem with Couples

Abstract We study the Hospitals/Residents problem with Couples ( hrc ), where a solution is a stable matching or a report that none exists. We present a novel polynomial-time algorithm that can find a near-feasible stable matching, where hospitals’ capacities are adjusted by at m...

Marginalisation or mobilisation through electromobility? Depicting the pharmakon nature of Chinese EV battery investments in Hungary

This study, drawing on Sheller’s multi-scalar approach to mobility justice, Urry’s approach to mobilities as interconnected networks, and the worlds on the move concept of this special issue examines how Chinese investments in EV battery production in Hungary generate a range of...