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2015: The politics of promoting gender equity in contemporary Uganda: Cases of the Domestic Violence Law and the policy on Universal Primary Education

Josephine Ahikire and Amon A. Mwiine

2015: The politics of governing oil effectively: A comparative study of two new oil-rich states in Africa

Sam Hickey, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Angelo Izama and Giles Mohan

2015: Political settlements, the deals environment and economic growth: The case of Ghana

Robert Osei, Charles Ackah, George Domfe and Michael Danquah

2015: Breaking the rules, breaking the game: external ideas, politics and inclusive development in Honduras

Sarah Hunt

2015: Governance and inequality: Benchmarking and interpreting South Africa’s evolving political settlement

Brian Levy, Alan Hirsch and Ingrid Woolard

2015: Political commitment in India’s social policy implementation: Shaping the performance of MGNREGA

Deepta Chopra

2015: Transnational capital and the political settlement of Ghana’s oil economy

Giles Mohan and Kojo Pumpuni Asante

2015: The political settlement and oil in Uganda

Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya, Angelo Izama and William Kizito

2015: Investigating the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa: At the intersection of transnational ideas and domestic politics

Tom Lavers and Sam Hickey

2015: Class politics and social protection: the implementation of India’s MGNREGA

Indrajit Roy

2015: Beyond elite bargains: building democracy from below in Uganda

Sophie King and Sam Hickey

2015: Understanding youth: towards a psychology of youth poverty and development in sub-Saharan African cities

Nicola Banks

2015: Social transfers and women’s labour supply in Kyrgyzstan

Armando Barrientos and Alma Kudebayeva

2015: A Just Retirement Future for Chilean Workers: Social Insurance or Private Savings?

Silvia Borzutsky and Mark Hyde

2015: Raising voice or giving assets? Reducing extreme poverty in an uncertain environment: A case study from Bangladesh

Lucy Scott

2014: Spatial differences between family and non-family farming in Brazilian agriculture

Carlos José Caetano Bacha and Alysson Luiz Stege

2014: Is there a new Brazilian model of development? Main findings from the IRIBA research programme

Armando Barrientos and Ed Amann

2014: A more level playing field? Explaining the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

2014: Taxation, redistribution and the social contract in Brazil

Marcus Melo, Armando Barrientos and André Canuto Coelho

2014: Infrastructure and its role in Brazil’s Development Process

Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Thomas Trebat and Juan Villa

2014: Brazilian Anti-Corruption Legislation and its Enforcement: Potential Lessons for Institutional Design

Mariana Mota Prado and Lindsey Carson

2014: Mapping Corruption and its Institutional Determinants in Brazil

Lindsey Carson and Mariana Mota Prado

2014: Institutions for Macro Stability in Brazil: Inflation Targets and Fiscal Responsibility

José Roberto Afonso and Eliane Araujo

2014: Restructuring Brazil’s National Financial System

Ernani Teixeira Torres Filho, Luiz Macahyba and Rodrigo Zeidan

2014: The Impact of SENAI's Vocational Training Programme on Employment, Wages, and Mobility in Brazil: What Lessons for Sub Saharan Africa?

Stephan Klasen and Carlos Villalobos

2014: Antipoverty Transfers and Inclusive Growth in Brazil

Armando Barrientos, Dario Debowicz and Ingrid Woolard

2014: Technological Catch-up and Indigenous Institutional Infrastructures in Latecomer Natural Resource-related Industries: An Exploration of the Role of EMBRAPA in Brazil’s Soybean and Forestry-based Pulp and Paper Industries

Paulo Figueiredo

2014: What explains the intensification and diversification of Brazil´s agricultural production and exports from 1990 to 2012? author-name: Carlos José Caetano Bacha

Leandro Vinicios de Carvalho

2014: The Economics of the Brazilian Model of Agricultural Development author-name: Bernardo Mueller

Charles Mueller

2014: The political economy of economic growth in India, 1993-2013

Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar and Jagadish Prasad Sahu

2014: The political economy of inclusive healthcare in Cambodia Guarantee Scheme in India

Tim Kelsall and Seiha Heng

2014: Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Bhanu Gupta and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

2014: The politics of regional inequality in Ghana: State elites, donors and PRSPs

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and David Hulme

2014: The political economy determinants of economic growth in Malawi

Jonathan Said and Khwima Singini

2014: Post-conflict pacts and inclusive political settlements: institutional perspectives from Solomon Islands

David Craig and Doug Porter

2014: Rethinking the politics of development in Africa? How the 'political settlement' shapes resource allocation in Ghana

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and Sam Hickey

2014: The political settlement and economic growth in Cambodia

Tim Kelsall and Seiha Heng

2014: Ideas, interests and the politics of development change in India: capitalism, inclusion and the state

Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Michael Walton

2014: Politics, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politics

Diana Mitlin

2014: Can aid bureaucracies think politically? The administrative challenges of political economy analysis in DFID and the World Bank

Pablo Yanguas and David Hulme

2014: Governance as a global development goal? Setting, measuring and monitoring the Post-2015 Development Agenda

David Hulme, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

2014: How should Uganda grow?

Ricardo Hausmann, Brad Cunningham, John Matovu, Rosie Osire and Kelly Wyett

2014: Rethinking spatial inequalities in development: the primacy of politics and power relations

Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai

2014: A dynamic mapping of the political settlement in Ghana

Franklin Oduro, Mohammed Awal and Maxwell Agyei Ashon

2014: What works for young people's development? A Case Study of BRAC's Empowerment and Livelihoods for Adolescent Girls programme in Uganda and Tanzania

Nicola Banks

2014: Money-metric poverty, welfare, growth, and inequality in India: 1983 – 2011/12

S. Subramanian and D. Jayaraj

2014: Exchange rate misalignment and economic development: the case of Pakistan

Dario Debowicz and Wajiha Saeed

2014: Agricultural Employment, Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Constanza Di Nucci

2014: Is Rural Contribution to Aggregate Poverty Reduction Substantial? New Evidence

Katsushi Imai, Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah and Purnima Purohit

2014: Decoding the Growth-Nutrition Nexus in China: Inequality, Uncertainty and Food Insecurity

Jing You, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2014: The length of exposure to antipoverty transfer programmes: what is the relevance for children's human capital formation?

Juan Villa

2014: Has Microfinance Lost its Moral Compass?

David Hulme and Mathilde Maitrot

2014: Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: Rural Development is still more important than Urbanisation?

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Alessandra Garbero

2014: Revisiting the Great Indian Poverty Debate: Measurement, Patterns, and Determinants

Himanshu Himanshu and Kunal Sen

2014: Exploring the Success of BRAC Tanzania’s Microcredit Programme

Dan Brockington and Nicola Banks

2014: The Politics of the diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

Paola Pena

2014: Economic and political inclusion of human development conditional transfer programmes in Latin America?

Armando Barrientos and Juan Villa

2014: Livelihoods Limitations: The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Bangladesh

Nicola Banks

2014: Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2014: Maternal Mortality, Religion and the Enrolment of Girls and Boys: Is there a Link?

Arusha Cooray and Stephan Klasen

2014: Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Catherine Co and Ralitza Dimova

2014: The political economy of social accountability in rural Uganda

Sophie King

2014: The WTO in Bali - What MC9 means for the Doha Development Agenda and why it matters?

Rorden Wilkinson, Erin Hannah and James Scott

2014: Cultivating political capabilities among Ugandan smallholders: good governance or popular organisation building?

Sophie King

2014: Client perceptions of the value of microinsurance: evidence from southern Ghana

Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner