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10409: Exploring a Political Approach to Rights-Based Development in North West Cameroon: From Rights and Marginality to Citizenship and Justice

Jeidoh Duni, Robert Fon, Sam Hickey and Nuhu Salihu

10309: Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Paul Mosley

10209: New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia

John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita

10009: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise

David Hulme

9909: ‘We Have Always Lived Here’: Indigenous Movements, Citizenship and Poverty in Argentina

Matthias vom Hau and Guillermo Wilde

9809: Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty: Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Augustin Fosu

9709: Anthropologies of the Urban Periphery: Salvador, Bahia

Maria Gabriela Hita and John Gledhill

9609: International Norm Dynamics and ‘the End of Poverty’: Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

David Hulme and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr

9509: Developing Countries in the ITO and GATT Negotiations

James Scott

9409: Changing Articulations of Class and Ethnicity: A Villa Miseria in Buenos Aires

Alejandro Grimson

9309: The Redistributive Threat: State Power and the Effect of Inequality on Democracy

Hillel David Soifer

9209: The Tools of Transition: Education and Development in Modern Southeast Asian History

Tim Harper

9109: Hiding Conflict over Industry Returns: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Sarah Bracking

9009: Strategising Consultation: Government Approaches to Legitimising Land Tenure Reform Policies in Post-apartheid South Africa

Elizabeth Fortin

8909: Economic Development and Surplus Labour: A Critical Review of the Lewis Model

Xiaobing Wang and Jenifer Piesse

8809: Targeting the Poor versus Financial Sustainability and External Funding: Evidence of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana

Samuel Kobina Annim

8709: The Role of Microfinance in Asset-Building and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Sinapi Aba Trust of Ghana

Joseph Kimos Adjei, Thankom Arun and Farhad Hossain

8609: Interim Institutions and the Development Process: Opening Spaces for Reform in Cambodia and Indonesia

Daniel Adler, Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock

8509: Flying Blind? Constructing Evidence-based Poverty Reduction Policies in PRSP Adopting Countries

Richard Marshall, Bernard Walters and Frederick Nixson

8409: Development Finance, Private and Public Sectors in Zimbabwe: Sustainability or Odious Debt?

Sarah Bracking and Lloyd Sachikonye

8309: Social Identities

Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Matthias vom Hau

8209: Bismarckian Transformations in Contemporary Nicaragua? From Gang Member to Drug Dealer to Legal Entrepreneur

Dennis Rodgers

8109: EU-MERCOSUR Trade Agreement: Potential Impacts on Rural Livelihoods and Gender (with Focus on Bio-fuels Feedstock Expansion)

Leonith Hinojosa

8009: Non-governmental Organisations and African Wildlife Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis

Katherine Scholfield and Dan Brockington

7909: Health in India Since Independence

Sunil S. Amrith

7809: Global Poverty and Inequality: A Brief Retrospective and Prospective Analysis

Michael Woolcock

7709: Energy and Natural Resource Dependency in Europe, 1600-1900

Paul Warde

7609: Savings, Credit, and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana

Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner

7509: Trading on a Grant: Integrating Formal and Informal Social Protection in Post-Apartheid Migrant Networks

Andries du Toit and David Neves

7409: Informal Social Protection in Post-Apartheid Migrant Networks: Vulnerability, Social Networks and Reciprocal Exchange in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa

Andries du Toit and David Neves

7309: Towards a Plurality of Methods in Project Evaluation: A Contextualised Approach to Understanding Impact Trajectories and Efficacy

Michael Woolcock

7209: Microfinance Programmes and the Poor: Whom Are They Reaching? Evidence from Ghana

Joseph Kimos Adjei and Thankom Arun

7109: The Satisfied Poor: Evidence from South India

Daniel Neff

7009: Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Alexander M. Danzer and Hulya Ulku

6809: How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?

Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao

6709: The End of Literacy: The Growth and Measurement of British Public Education Since the Early 19th Century

David Vincent

6608: Healthcare Policy for American Indians Since the Early 20th Century

Stephen J. Kunitz

6508: Multidimensional Poverty in the Republic of Congo: Being Poor Simultaneously in Many Ways

Geranda Notten

6408: Foodgrain Stocks, Prices and Speculation

Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa

6308: Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: Evidence from NSS and NFHS in 1992-2006

Katsushi S. Imai and Takahiro Sato

6208: Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies Are Dependent on Mineral Resources

Keith Breckenridge

6108: Over the Border and Under the Radar: Should Illegal Migrants Be Active Citizens?

Matthew Clarke

6008: The Story of the Grameen Bank: From Subsidised Microcredit to Market-based Microfinance

David Hulme

5908: Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development: The Case of Colonial India and Africa

C. A. Bayly

5808: Historical Lessons about Contemporary Social Welfare: Chinese Puzzles and Global Challenges

R. Bin Wong

5708: Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development

Anthony Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Maria Luisa Burneo and Ximena Warnaars

5508: Micro-Insurance in the Context of Social Protection

Thankom Arun and Susan Steiner

5408: Microfinance – A Way Forward

Thankom Arun and David Hulme

5308: Realist ontology and epistemology for rural research

Wendy Olsen

5208: Social Transfers and Growth: A Review

Armando Barrientos and James Scott