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2019: Will South Asia achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Learning from the MDGs experience

M Asadullah, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

2019: Political settlement and the politics of legitimation in countries undergoing democratisation: Insights from Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen and Thabit Jacob

2019: Doing business in a deals world - The doubly false premise of rules reform

Sabyasachi Kar, Lant Pritchett, Spandan Roy and Kunal Sen

2019: The challenge of sustaining a professional civil service amidst shifting political coalitions - The case of the Ministry of Finance in Zambia, 1991-2018

Marja Hinfelaar and Justine Sichone

2019: The shifting fortunes of the economic technocracy in Uganda: Caught between state-building and regime survival?

Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey

2019: The rise of the economic technocracy in Rwanda - A case of a bureaucratic pocket of effectiveness or state-building prioritisation?

Benjamin Chemouni

2019: The politics of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ - Insights from Ghana’s Ministry of Finance

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and Giles Mohan

2019: Pockets of effectiveness: The contributions of critical political economy and state theory

Giles Mohan

2019: The politics of state capacity and development in Africa - Reframing and researching ‘pockets of effectiveness’

Sam Hickey

2019: The interplay of ideas, institutional innovations and organisational structures: Insights from group farming in India

Bina Agarwal

2019: African development and the marginalisation of domestic capitalists

Pritish Behuria

2019: Service delivery reform in Nigeria: The rise and fall of the Conditional Grant Scheme to Local Government Areas (CGS to LGAs)

Bala Yanusa Yusuf and David Hulme

2019: Political settlements and the delivery of maternal health services in rural Uganda

Badru Bukenya and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

2019: Fair trade and wellbeing improvements - evidence from Sri Lanka

Hannah Holmes and Katsushi Imai

2019: Knowledge Matters - the potential contribution of the co-production of research to urban transformation

Diana Mitlin, Jhono Bennett, Philipp Horn, Sophie King, Jack Makau and George Masimba Nyama

2019: Explaining a ‘development miracle’: poverty reduction and human development in Malaysia since the 1970s

M Asadullah, Norma Mansor and Antonio Savoia

2019: The comparative political economy of plastic bag bans in East Africa: why implementation has varied in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda

Pritish Behuria

2019: The roles of the state in global value chains: an update and emerging agenda

Rory Horner and Matthew Alford

2019: Mapping the UK’s development NGOs: income, geography and contributions to international development

Nicola Banks and Tony Brockington

2018: Rethinking elite commitment to social protection in Ghana: Insights from an adapted political settlements approach

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

2018: The political prioritisation of welfare in India: Comparing the Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

Vasudha Chhotray, Anindita Adhikari and Vidushi Bahuguna

2018: Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (2): The politics of health insurance in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen and Thabit Jacob

2018: Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (1): The politics of Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) in Tanzania

Thabit Jacob and Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen

2018: The politics of upgrading in global value chains: The case of Rwanda’s coffee sector

Pritish Behuria

2018: The political economy of maternal healthcare in Ghana

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

2018: Delivering maternal health services in Rwanda: The role of politics

Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and Yvonne Habiyonizeye

2018: Elaborate scaffolding, weak foundations: Business–government relations and economic reform in democratic South Africa

Alan Hirsch and Brian Levy

2018: The politics of local content legislation in Ghana

Ishmael Ayanoore

2018: The political economy of social protection in Mozambique

Lars Buur and Padil Salimo

2018: Decentralisation and teacher accountability: How the political settlement shapes governance in the education sector at sub-national levels in Ghana

Edward Ampratwum, Mohammed Awal and Franklin Oduro

2018: Globalised growth in largely agrarian contexts: the urban–rural divide

Anirudh Krishna

2018: Transitions between growth episodes: Do institutions matter and do some institutions matter more?

Selim Raihan, Sabyasachi Kar and Kunal Sen

2018: State-movement partnership in Uganda: Co-producing an enabling environment for urban poverty reduction?

Sophie King and Peter Kasaija

2018: Understanding the contribution of the BSUP (JNNURM) to inclusive cities in India

Sundar Burra, Diana Mitlin, Gayatri Menon, Indu Agarwal, Preeti Banarse, Sharmila Gimonkar, Maria Lobo, Sheela Patel, Vinodkumar Rao and Monali Waghmare

2018: Is there a fiscal resource curse? Resource rents, fiscal capacity and political institutions

Tania Masi, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

2018: Taking ideas seriously within political settlements analysis

Tom Lavers

2018: Political settlements, women’s representation and gender equality: The 2008 gender-based violence law and gender parity in primary and secondary education in Rwanda

Jennie E. Burnet and Jeanne d’Arc Kanakuze

2018: An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South

Richard Heeks and Satyarupa Shekhar

2018: Towards citywide participatory planning: emerging community-led practices in three African cities

Philipp Horn, Diana Mitlin, Jhono Bennett, Beth Chitekwe-Biti and Jack Makau

2018: Beyond Piketty: a new perspective on poverty and inequality in India

Varsha S Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2018: How to reduce poverty and address climate change? An empirical cross-country analysis and the roles of economic growth and inequality

Daniele Malerba

2018: More educated, less mobile? Diverging trends in income and educational mobility in Chile and Peru

Anja Gaentzsch and Gabriela Zapata Román

2018: Aging, disability and disease in India

Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2018: Agricultural research, technology and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Raghav Gaiha and Shantanu Mathur

2018: Is variety the spice of life? India’s nutrition experience

Nidhi Kaicker, Vani Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2018: Was Kuznets Right? New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality

Cinar Baymul and Kunal Sen

2018: Does access to formal finance matter for stimulating entrepreneurship in developing countries? Evidence from non-farm entrepreneurial activities in Nigeria

Olabimtan Adebowale and David Lawson

2018: From ‘international’ to ‘global’ development in the UK? Recent evidence from political party manifestos

David Hulme and Eleni Sifaki

2018: How does access to formal finance affect household welfare dynamics? Micro evidence from Nigeria

Olabimtan Adebowale and David Lawson

2018: The informational basis of emerging social assistance in low and middle-income countries

Armando Barrientos

2018: Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) programme in China

Nanak Kakwani, Shi Li, Xiaobing Wang and Mengbing Zhu

2018: The heterogeneous effects of conditional cash transfers across geographical clusters: do energy factors matter?

Daniele Malerba