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2009: ‘We Have Always Lived Here’: Indigenous Movements, Citizenship and Poverty in Argentina

Matthias vom Hau and Guillermo Wilde

2009: Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty: Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Augustin Fosu

2009: Anthropologies of the Urban Periphery: Salvador, Bahia

Maria Gabriela Hita and John Gledhill

2009: International Norm Dynamics and ‘the End of Poverty’: Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

David Hulme and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

2009: Developing Countries in the ITO and GATT Negotiations

James Scott

2009: Changing Articulations of Class and Ethnicity: A Villa Miseria in Buenos Aires

Alejandro Grimson

2009: The Redistributive Threat: State Power and the Effect of Inequality on Democracy

Hillel David Soifer

2009: The Tools of Transition: Education and Development in Modern Southeast Asian History

Tim Harper

2009: Hiding Conflict over Industry Returns: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Sarah Bracking

2009: Strategising Consultation: Government Approaches to Legitimising Land Tenure Reform Policies in Post-apartheid South Africa

Elizabeth Fortin

2009: Economic Development and Surplus Labour: A Critical Review of the Lewis Model

Xiaobing Wang and Jenifer Piesse

2009: Targeting the Poor versus Financial Sustainability and External Funding: Evidence of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana

Samuel Annim

2009: 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

2009: Interim Institutions and the Development Process: Opening Spaces for Reform in Cambodia and Indonesia

Daniel Adler, Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock

2009: Flying Blind? Constructing Evidence-based Poverty Reduction Policies in PRSP Adopting Countries

Richard Marshall, Bernard Walters and Frederick Nixson

2009: Development Finance, Private and Public Sectors in Zimbabwe: Sustainability or Odious Debt?

Sarah Bracking and Lloyd Sachikonye

2009: Social Identities

Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Matthias vom Hau

2009: Bismarckian Transformations in Contemporary Nicaragua? From Gang Member to Drug Dealer to Legal Entrepreneur

Dennis Rodgers

2009: EU-MERCOSUR Trade Agreement: Potential Impacts on Rural Livelihoods and Gender (with Focus on Bio-fuels Feedstock Expansion)

Leonith Hinojosa

2009: Non-governmental Organisations and African Wildlife Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis

Katherine Scholfield and Dan Brockington

2009: Health in India Since Independence

Sunil S. Amrith

2009: Global Poverty and Inequality: A Brief Retrospective and Prospective Analysis

Michael Woolcock

2009: Energy and Natural Resource Dependency in Europe, 1600-1900

Paul Warde

2009: Savings, Credit, and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana

Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner

2009: Trading on a Grant: Integrating Formal and Informal Social Protection in Post-Apartheid Migrant Networks

Andries du Toit and David Neves

2009: 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

2009: Towards a Plurality of Methods in Project Evaluation: A Contextualised Approach to Understanding Impact Trajectories and Efficacy

Michael Woolcock

2009: Microfinance Programmes and the Poor: Whom Are They Reaching? Evidence from Ghana

Joseph Kimos Adjei and Thankom Arun

2009: The Satisfied Poor: Evidence from South India

Daniel Neff

2009: Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Alexander Danzer and Hulya Ulku

2009: Soaring Food Prices: A Threat or Opportunity in Asia?

Ganesh Thapa, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Varsha S. Kulkarni

2009: How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?

Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao

2009: The End of Literacy: The Growth and Measurement of British Public Education Since the Early 19th Century

David Vincent

2009: Welfare Effects of Regressive Taxation and Subsidies in China

Xiaobing Wang and Jenifer Piesse

2009: Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development’

Michael Bamberger, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

2009: Do transfers generate local economy effects?

Armando Barrientos and Rachel Sabatés-Wheeler

2009: Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals: Politics, Ethics, Evidence and an ‘Unholy Alliance’

David Hulme

2009: 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

2009: Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Paul Mosley

2009: 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

2009: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise

David Hulme

2008: Healthcare Policy for American Indians Since the Early 20th Century

Stephen J. Kunitz

2008: Multidimensional Poverty in the Republic of Congo: Being Poor Simultaneously in Many Ways

Geranda Notten

2008: Foodgrain Stocks, Prices and Speculation

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa

2008: Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: Evidence from NSS and NFHS in 1992-2006

Katsushi Imai and Takahiro Sato

2008: Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies Are Dependent on Mineral Resources

Keith Breckenridge

2008: Over the Border and Under the Radar: Should Illegal Migrants Be Active Citizens?

Matthew Clarke

2008: The Story of the Grameen Bank: From Subsidised Microcredit to Market-based Microfinance

David Hulme

2008: Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development: The Case of Colonial India and Africa

C. A. Bayly

2008: Historical Lessons about Contemporary Social Welfare: Chinese Puzzles and Global Challenges

R. Bin Wong

2008: Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development

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

2008: Social Security as a Developmental Institution? Extending the Solar Case for the Relative Efficacy of Poor Relief Provisions under the English Old Poor Law

Richard M. Smith

2008: Micro-Insurance in the Context of Social Protection

Thankom Arun and Susan Steiner

2008: Microfinance – A Way Forward

Thankom Arun and David Hulme

2008: Realist ontology and epistemology for rural research

Wendy Olsen

2008: Social Transfers and Growth: A Review

Armando Barrientos and James Scott

2008: Social Business Enterprises: Maximising Social Benefits or Maximising Profits? The Case of Grameen Danone Foods Limited

Asad Kamran Ghalib and Farhad Hossain

2008: Diamond mining, governance initiatives and post-conflict development in Sierra Leone

Roy Maconachie

2008: International financial regulation, access to finance, systemic stability, and development

Emilios Avgouleas

2008: The interpretation of globalization amongst Chinese business leaders: a managerial and organizational cognition approach

Aminu Mamman and Kui Liu

2008: Arrested Development: The Political Origins and Socio-Economic Foundations of Common Violence in Jamaica

Imani Duncan-Waite and Michael Woolcock

2008: Transmission of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and China

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa

2008: Survey Trust, Experimental Trust and ROSCA Membership in Rural Cameroon

Alvin Etang, David Fielding and Stephen Knowles

2008: How important is the Capacity of Local Governments for Improvements in Welfare? Evidence from Decentralised Uganda

Susan Steiner

2008: Aspiration Paradox in Indian Micro-Finance: A Difficulty and an Opportunity for Debate

Wendy Olsen

2008: Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

2008: Not always in the people’s interest: Power-sharing arrangements in African Peace agreements

Andreas Mehler

2008: Institutions, Trade, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States

Mina Baliamoune

2008: Financing the Poor: Can microcredit make a difference? Empirical observations from Bangladesh

Farhad Hossain and Tonya Knight

2008: Locating and Extending Livelihoods Research

Martin Prowse

2008: Water Rights in South Africa: Insights from Legislative Reform

Philip Woodhouse

2008: Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: reflections on land transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe

Admos Chimhowu and Philip Woodhouse

2008: Halving poverty in Post-HIPC-MDRI economies by 2015: How much will it cost and is it achievable?

Jacinta Nwachukwu

2008: Mining and social movements: struggles over Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes

Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Jeannet Lingan, Juan Pablo Muñoz and Martin Scurrah

2008: Managing Assets and Vulnerability Contexts: Vistas of Gendered Livelihoods of Adivasi Women in South India

Shoba Arun

2008: A macroeconomic policy approach to poverty reduction

Sushanta Mallick

2008: Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution

Armando Barrientos and David Hulme

2008: Helping the Needy: Factors Influencing the Development of Microfinance in Barbados

Tonya Knight and Farhad Hossain

2008: Remittances, Poverty Reduction and Informalisation in Zimbabwe 2005-6: a political economy of dispossession?

Sarah Bracking and Lloyd Sachikonye

2008: Tracking economic policy and poverty outcomes in Mongolia

Richard Marshall, Frederick Nixson and Bernard Walters

2008: The Prospects For Foreign Debt Sustainability In Post-Completion Point Countries: Implications Of The HIPC-MDRI Framework

Jacinta Nwachukwu

2008: Foreign Capital Inflows, Economic Policies and the Real Exchange Rate in Sub Saharan Africa: Is there an Interaction Effect?

Jacinta Nwachukwu

2008: New agricultural frontiers in post-conflict Sierra Leone? Exploring institutional challenges for wetland management in the Eastern Province

Roy Maconachie

2008: Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander Danzer, Alexander Muravyev and Natalia Weißhaar

2008: How well is the demand-driven, community management model for rural water supply systems doing? Evidence from Bolivia, Peru, and Ghana

Dale Whittington, Jennifer Davis, Linda Prokopy, Kristin Komives, Richard Thorsten, Heather Lukacs, Alexander Bakalian and Wendy Wakeman

2008: Adoption of the Internet in rural NGOs in Indonesia – A study on Internet appropriation for rural sector reform

Yanuar Nugroho

2008: The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

2008: Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur

2008: An Optimisation Model for Use of the Vi Polysaccharide Vaccine to Prevent Typhoid in Developing Countries

Donald T. Lauria, Brian Maskery, Christine Poulos and Dale Whittington

2007: Breaking Legal Inequality Traps: New Approaches to Building Justice Systems for the Poor in Developing Countries

Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock

2007: The Making of the Millennium Development Goals: Human Development Meets Results based Management In an Imperfect World

David Hulme

2007: Caveat Emptor: The computable general equilibrium approach to assessing the poverty impact of trade liberalisation

Colin Kirkpatrick and Silviu Scrieciu

2007: Pro-Poor Growth: Explaining the Cross-Country Variation in the Growth Elasticity of Poverty

Ajay Chhibber and Gaurav Nayyar

2007: Disparity, Deprivation and Discrimination in Rural India

Raghav Gaiha1, Ganesh Thapa, Katsushi Imai and Vani S. Kulkarni

2007: Using Mixed Methods to Assess Social Capital in Low Income Countries: A Practical Guide

Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woolcock

2007: State infrastructural power and nationalism: Comparative lessons from Mexico and Argentina

Matthias vom Hau

2007: Poverty, Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam

Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2007: A Relational Approach to the Theory and Practices of Economic Development

Michael Woolcock and Elizabeth Radin

2007: Empowerment, Deliberative Development and Local Level Politics in Indonesia: Participatory Projects as a Source of Countervailing Power

Christopher Gibson and Michael Woolcock

2007: Risks, rights, and needs: Compatible or contradictory bases for social protection?

Lauchlan T. Munro

2007: Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: Lessons from existing programmes

Armando Barrientos

2007: Financing Social Protection

Armando Barrientos

2007: Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa

Sam Hickey

2007: Political Incumbency and Drought Relief in Africa

Ngonidzashe Munemo

2007: Contesting unfair international capitalism: Assessment of the effectiveness and impact of campaigning and advocacy from the NGO sector

Leonith Hinojosa, Dave Pearce and Sarah Dumpleton

2007: Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra Poor’ Programme

David Hulme and Karen Moore