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2017: Poverty reduction during 1990-2013: Did Millennium Development Goals adoption and state capacity matter?

M Asadullah and Antonio Savoia

2017: Do economic institutions matter for growth episodes?

Sabyasachi Kar, Selim Raihan and Kunal Sen

2017: A political settlement approach to gender empowerment: The case of the Domestic Violence Act and girls’ education policy in Ghana

Beatrix Allah-Mensah and Rhoda Osei-Afful

2017: Political economy of industrial policy in Turkey: The case of the automotive industry

Erol Taymaz and Kamil Yilmaz

2017: Varieties of state-building in Africa: Elites, ideas and the politics of public sector reform

Pablo Yanguas

2017: The politics of core public sector reform in Rwanda

Benjamin Chemouni

2017: The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya

Fredrick O. Wanyama and Anna McCord

2017: The problem with teachers: the political settlement and education quality reforms in Bangladesh

Naomi Hossain, Mirza Hassan, Md Ashikur Rahman, Khondoker Shakhawat Ali and M. Sajidul Islam

2017: The politics of core public sector reform in Uganda: Behind the facade

Badru Bukenya and William Muhumuza

2017: School governance in a fragmented political and bureaucratic environment: Case studies from South Africa’s Eastern Cape province

Brian Levy and Lawule Shumane

2017: The governance of basic education in the Eastern Cape

Zukiswa Kota, Monica Hendricks, Eric Matambo and Vinothan Naidoo

2017: Competitive clientelism and the politics of core public sector reform in Ghana

Daniel Appiah and Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

2017: Political settlements and the governance of extractive industry: A comparative analysis of the longue duree in Africa and Latin America

Anthony Bebbington, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Marja Hinfelaar, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Cynthia Sanborn

2017: The politics of natural resource extraction in Zambia

Marja Hinfelaar and Jessica Achberger

2017: Mining, political settlements and inclusive development in Peru

Cynthia Sanborn, Tania Ramirez and Veronica Hurtado

2017: Competitive clientelism and the political economy of mining in Ghana

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

2017: Political settlements, natural resource extraction, and inclusion in Bolivia

Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Celina Grisi Huber

2017: The politics of negotiating gender equity in Bangladesh

Sohela Nazneen and Rezwan Masud

2017: The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

Kate Pruce and Sam Hickey

2017: What is global development

Rory Horner

2017: Re-visiting microfinance entrepreneurship in Bangladesh: Can losers be choosers?

Mathilde Maitrot

2017: A Farm Survey of Small-scale Sugarcane Growers in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga province, South Africa

Phil Woodhouse and Paul James

2017: Beyond poverty escapes – social mobility in the Global South: A survey article

Begard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen

2017: Early marriage, social networks and the transmission of norms

M Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

2017: What factors can explain the rise and inter-state variation in crimes against women in India?

Geetika Dang, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2017: A double-edged sword: technology, prosperity and inequality

Gindo Tampubolan and Maria Fajarini

2017: Group farming in France: Why are some regions more conducive to cooperation than others?

Bina Agarwal and Bruno Dorin

2017: What are the relationships between aging, depression, non-communicable diseases and disabilities in South Africa?

Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2017: What are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty in El Salvador?

Werner Peña

2017: Converging divergence? Unpacking the new geography of 21st century global development

Rory Horner and David Hulme

2017: What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socioeconomic and environmental priorities associated with a polysemic concept

Judith Krauss

2017: Governance and development in Africa: A concise review

Augustin Fosu

2016: Corporate social responsibility and political settlements in the mining sector in Ghana, Zambia and Peru

Tomas Frederiksen

2016: Social protection in an aspiring ‘developmental state’: The political drivers of Ethiopia’s PSNP

Tom Lavers

2016: The political path to universal health coverage: Elite commitment to community-based health insurance in Rwanda

Benjamin Chemouni

2016: Social protection in an aspiring ‘developmental state’: The political drivers of community-based health insurance in Ethiopia

Tom Lavers

2016: Democracy versus dictatorship? The political determinants of growth episodes

Kunal Sen, Lant Pritchett, Sabyasachi Kar and Selim Raihan

2016: The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda

Sam Hickey and Badru Bukenya

2016: Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme

Tom Lavers

2016: The politics and governance of basic education: A tale of two South African provinces

Brian Levy, Robert Cameron, Ursula Hoadley and Vinothan Naidoo

2016: Scalar politics and transnational governance innovations: A political settlements lens on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in the Andes

Anthony Bebbington, Elisa Arond and Juan Luis Dammert

2016: Inclusion as political mobilisation: The political economy of quality education initiatives in Uganda

Anne Mette Kjaer and Nansozi K. Muwanga

2016: Oriented towards action: The political economy of primary education in Rwanda

Timothy P. Williams

2016: Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? Evidence from village council elections in India

Subhasish Dey and Kunal Sen

2016: The potential and limits of performance management: Improving basic education in the Western Cape

Robert Cameron and Brian Levy

2016: Leadership, stakeholders and learner performance in four Western Cape schools

Ursula Hoadley, Brian Levy, Lawule Shumane and Shelly Wilburn

2016: When a ‘ruling alliance’ and public sector governance meet: Managing for performance in South African basic education

Robert Cameron and Vinothan Naidoo

2016: How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies

Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

2016: The political economy of primary education reform in Cambodia

Tim Kelsall, Sothy Khieng, Chuong Chantha and Tieng Tek Muy

2016: The political settlement and ‘deals environment’ in Rwanda: Unpacking two decades of economic growth

Pritish Behuria and Tom Goodfellow

2016: The role and responsibility of foreign aid in recipient political settlements

Pablo Yanguas

2016: Does access to formal finance matter for welfare and inequality? Micro level evidence from Nigeria

Olabimtan Adebowale and Dr Ralitza Dimova

2016: Promoting Gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain: opportunities and challenges in Ghana

Stephanie Barrientos and Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie

2016: Exposing forced labour in Malaysian electronics: the role of a social auditor in labour governance within a global production network

Gale Raj-Reichert

2016: Rags to riches? Intergenerational occupational mobility in India

Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen

2016: A harmonised proxy means test for Kenya’s National Safety Net programme

Juan Villa

2016: Exit as entry in antipoverty programmes

Juan Villa and Armando Barrientos

2016: To farm or not to farm? Indian farmers in transition

Bina Agarwal and Ankush Agrawal