Global Development Institute working paper series
A collection of working papers from across disciplines, covering a broad range of issues related to development.
Note: GDI research as part of the African Cities Research Consortium; the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre; the FutureDAMS Research Centre; and Digital Development working paper series are published in standalone working paper series.
The latest from the Global Development Institute working paper series.
- 2024-079 - Who has economic capabilities? Credit, gender, and informal self-employment in Indonesia (Namira Samir and David Lawson)
- 2024-078 - Regime-dependent Okun corfficients in Chile
- 2024-077 - Municipal electoral competition and the economic condition of households: evidence from the slums of Kolkata (Indranil De, Vidhya Unnikrishnan)
- 2024-076 - The connected politics of global development (Indrajit Roy)
- 2024-075 - Labour, gender and marriage: the social stigma hypothesis against working wives (Isaac Lopez-Moreno Flores)
- 2024-074 - The political economy of pricing and price risk in Ghana's cocoa marketing system (Sophie van Huellen, Fuad Mohammed Abubakar, Nana Amma Asante-Poku and Robert Fig)
- 2024-073 - The political economy of polycentric governance in global production: insights from South African fruit (Matthew Alford and Margareet Visser)
- 2024-072 - Individual social capital and extreme poverty: when is it good or bad capital for women’s health? (Md Moslah Uddin and David Lawson)
- 2024-071 - Does access to credit reduce child labour? New evidence from Bangladesh (Farzana Munshi, KM Arefin Kamal and David Fielding
- 2024-070 - Life evaluation, affluence and trust in the NDA government (Raghav Gaiha, Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Vani S Kulkarni, and Radhika Aggarwal)
- 2023-069 - Revisiting Okun’s law: testing for asymmetric adjustment in Chile (Claudio Navarro)
- 2023-068 - The relationship between economic development and female labour force participation:micro-level evidence from Mexico (Isaac López-Moreno Flores)
- 2023-067 - Critically analysing the potential of Slum Dwellers International (SDI)-inspired savings-based mobilisation and community-led enumeration in Addis Ababa from a data justice perspective (Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael, Feven Haddis Wouldegebriel and Masresha Taye)
- 2023-066 - Regional income inequality in Egypt: evolution and implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10 (Francesco Savoia, Ioannis Bournakis, Mona Said, Antonio Savoia)
- 2023-065 - Can political representation improve forest conservation? The Indian experience (Bina Agarwal, Shiva Chakravarti Sharma, Shamindra Nath Roy)
- 2023-064 - African print textile value chains during the time of Covid-19 (Beletchei Ebia)
- 2023-063 - Decentralisation or patronage: what determines the government’s allocation of development spending in a unitary country? Evidence from Bangladesh (Amin Masud Ali and Antonio Savoia)
- 2023-062 - Sexuality and migration in the Global South: an overview (Pedro Pablo Cortés)
- 2022-061 - Changes in subjective wellbeing, affluence and trust in the police in India (Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha)
- 2021-060 - Polycentric governance of global and domestic horticulture value chains: shifting standards in Kenyan fresh fruit and vegetables (Giovanni Pasquali, Stephanie Barrientos and Maggie Opondo)
- 2021-059 - A framework to scale citizen participation in urban development: Learning from experiences of multi-stakeholder collaboration (Diana Mitlin)
- 2021-058 - Survivors vs creators: upgrading and public governance in the Kenyan leather value chain (Giovanni Pasquali)
- 2021-057 - Does the landowner’s gender affect farm productivity and self-cultivation? An empirical analysis for India (Bina Agarwal and Malvika Mahesh)
- 2021-056 - Do pluriversal arguments lead to a ‘world of many worlds’? Beyond the confines of (anti-)modern certainties (Katsu Masaki)
- 2021-055 - What's the worth of a promise? Evaluating the longer-term indirect effects of a programme to reduce early marriage in India (Shreya Biswas and Upasak Das)
- 2021-054 - Post-corona Africa: downward spiral or resilient recovery? (Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Xubei Luo)
- 2021-053 - Birds of a feather flock together? Diversity and the spread of Covid-19 cases in India (Udayan Rathore, Upasak Das and Prasenjit Sarkhel)
- 2021-052 - Social science research and Covid-19 (Isis Barei-Guyot)
- 2020-051 - The Covid-19 impact on food prices in India (Katsushi. S Imai, Nidhi Kaicker and Raghav Gaiha)
- 2020-050 - No rain no gain – how reduced rainfall impacts on children’s school attendance in Uganda (Peter Agamile and David Lawson)
- 2020-049 - Using information and technology to improve the efficacy of welfare programmes: evidence from a field experiment in India (Upasak Das, Amartya Paul, Mohit Sharma)
- 2020-048 - Covid-19 and the Governance of Regional Apparel Value Chains: Implication for suppliers and workers in Eswatini (Giovanni Pasquali and Shane Godfrey)
- 2020-047 - Severity of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. The case of three states: Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Meghalaya (Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha)
- 2020-046 - Can money buy happiness? Subjective wellbeing and its relationship with income, relative income, monetary and non-monetary poverty in Bangladesh Salauddin Tauseef
- 2020-045 - Does more schooling imply improved learning? Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer programme in India (Upasak Das, Prasenjit Sarkhel)
- 2020-044 - Assessing trends in multidimensional poverty during the MDGs (Francesco Burchi, Daniele Malerba, Claudio E. Montenegro, Nicole Rippin)
- 2020-043 - Which women own land in India? Between divergent data sets, measures and laws (Bina Agarwal, Pervesh Anthwal, Malvika Mahesh)
- 2020-042 - Bridging the affordability gap: towards a financing mechanism for slum upgrading at scale in Nairobi – analysing NGO experiences with local-level finance (K.Lines, Diana Mitlin, Jacinta Mwelu, John Pius Njenga Maina, Omondi Okoyo, Evans Otibine, Tabitha Wakesho, Mary Wambui)
- 2020-041 - The welfare effects of social assistance programmes for women in India (Vidhya Unnikrishnan)
- 2019-040 - Fair trade and wellbeing improvements: evidence from Sri Lanka (Hannah Holmes and Katsushi S. Imai)
- 2019-039 - 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)
- 2019-038 - Explaining a ‘development miracle’: poverty reduction and human development in Malaysia since the 1970s (M Niaz Asadullah, Norma Mansor, Antonio Savoia)
- 2019-037 - The comparative political economy of plastic bag bans in East Africa: why implementation has varied in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda (Pritish Behuria)
- 2019-036 - The roles of the state in global value chains: an update and emerging agenda (Rory Horner, Matthew Alford)
- 2019-035 - Mapping the UK’s development NGOs: income, geography and contributions to international development (Nicola Banks, Dan Brockington)
- 2018-034 - Towards citywide participatory planning: emerging community-led practices in three African cities (Philipp Horn, Diana Mitlin, Jhono Bennett, Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Jack Makau)
- 2018-033 - Beyond Piketty: a new perspective on poverty and inequality in India (Varsha S Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha)
- 2018-032 - How to reduce poverty and address climate change? An empirical cross-country analysis and the roles of economic growth and inequality (Daniele Malerba)
- 2018-031 - More educated, less mobile? Diverging trends in income and educational mobility in Chile and Peru (Anja Gaentzsch and Gabriela Zapata Román)
- 2018-030 - Aging, disability and disease in India (Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha)
- 2018-029 - Agricultural research, technology and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (Raghav Gaiha and Shantanu Mathur)
- 2018-028 - Is variety the spice of life? India’s nutrition experience (Nidhi Kaicker, Vani Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha)
- 2018-027 - Was Kuznets Right? New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality (Cinar Baymul and Kunal Sen)
- 2018-026 - 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)
- 2018-025 – From ‘international’ to ‘global’ development in the UK? Recent evidence from political party manifestos (David Hulme and Eleni Sifaki)
- 2018-024 – How does access to formal finance affect household welfare dynamics? Micro evidence from Nigeria (Olabimtan Adebowale and David Lawson)
- 2018-023 – The informational basis of emerging social assistance in low and middle-income countries (Armando Barrientos)
- 2018-022 – Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) programme in China (Nanak Kakwani, Shi Li, Xiaobing Wang, Mengbing Zhu)
- 2018-021 – The heterogeneous effects of conditional cash transfers across geographical clusters: do energy factors matter? (Daniele Malerba)
- 2017-020 – What is global development? (Rory Horner)
- 2017-019 – Re-visiting microfinance entrepreneurship in Bangladesh: Can losers be choosers?(Mathilde Maitrot)
- 2017-018 – A farm survey of small-scale sugarcane growers in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga province, South Africa (Philip Woodhouse, Paul James)
- 2017-017 - Beyond poverty escapes – social mobility in the Global South: A survey article (Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen)
- 2017-016 - Early marriage, social networks and the transmission of norms (M. Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj)
- 2017-015 - What factors can explain the rise and inter-state variation in crimes against women in India? (Geetika Dang, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha)
- 2017-014 - A double-edged sword: technology, prosperity and inequality (Gindo Tampubolon and Maria Fajarini)
- 2017-013 - Group farming in France: Why are some regions more conducive to cooperation than others? (Bina Agarwal and Bruno Dorin)
- 2017-012 - What are the relationships between ageing, depression, non-communicable diseases and disabilities in South Africa? (Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha)
- 2017-011 - What are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty in El Salvador? (Werner Peña)
- 2017-010 - Converging divergence? Unpacking the new geography of 21st-century global development (Rory Horner and David Hulme)
- 2017-009 - What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environmental priorities associated with a polysemic concept (Judith Krauss)
- 2017-008 - Governance and development in Africa: A concise review (Augustin Fosu)
- 2017-007 - Does access to formal finance matter for welfare and inequality? Micro-level evidence from Nigeria (Olabimtan Adebowale and Ralitza Dimova)
- 2016-006 - Promoting gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain: Opportunities and challenges in Ghana (Stephanie Barrientos, Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie)
- 2016-005 - Exposing forced labour in Malaysian electronics: the role of a social auditor in labour governance within a global production network (Gale Raj-Reichert)
- 2016-004 - Rags to riches? Intergenerational occupational mobility in India (Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, Kunal Sen)
- 2016-003 - A harmonised proxy means test for Kenya’s National Safety Net programme (Juan M. Villa)
- 2016-002 - Exit as entry in antipoverty programmes (Juan M. Villa and Armando Barrientos)
- 2016-001 - To farm or not to farm? Indian farmers in transition (Bina Agarwal and Ankush Agrawal)
- 216/2015 - Understanding youth: towards a psychology of youth poverty and development in sub-Saharan African cities (Nicola Banks)
- 215/2015 - Social transfers and women’s labour supply in Kyrgyzstan (Armando Barrientos, Alma Kudebayeva)
- 214/2015 - A Just Retirement Future for Chilean Workers: Social Insurance or Private Savings? (Silvia Borzutsky, Mark Hyde)
- 213/2015 - Raising voice or giving assets? Reducing extreme poverty in an uncertain environment: A case study from Bangladesh (Lucy Scott)
- 212/2014 - 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)
- 211/2014 - Money-metric poverty, welfare, growth, and inequality in India: 1983 – 2011/12 (S. Subramanian, D. Jayaraj)
- 210/2014 - Exchange rate misalignment and economic development: the case of Pakistan (Darío Debowicz, Wajiha Saeed)
- 209/2014 - Agricultural Employment, Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries (Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Constanza Di Nucci)
- 208/2014 - Is Rural Contribution to Aggregate Poverty Reduction Substantial? New Evidence (Katsushi S. Imai, Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, Purnima Purohit)
- 207/2014 - Decoding the Growth-Nutrition Nexus in China: Inequality, Uncertainty and Food Insecurity (Jing You, Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha)
- 206/2014 - The length of exposure to antipoverty transfer programmes: what is the relevance for children's human capital formation? (Juan M. Villa)
- 205/2014 - Has Microfinance Lost its Moral Compass? (David Hulme, Mathilde Maitrot)
- 204/2014 - Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: Rural Development is still more important than Urbanisation? (Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Alessandra Garbero)
- 203/2014 - Revisiting the Great Indian Poverty Debate: Measurement, Patterns, and Determinants (Himanshu, Kunal Sen)
- 202/2014 - Exploring the Success of BRAC Tanzania’s Microcredit Programme (Dan Brockington, Nicola Banks)
- 201/2014 - The Politics of the diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America (Paola Pena)
- 200/2014 - Economic and political inclusion of human development conditional transfer programmes in Latin America? (Armando Barrientos, Juan Miguel Villa)
- 199/2014 - Livelihoods Limitations: The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Bangladesh (Nicola Banks)
- 198/2014 - Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries (Katsushi S. Imai, Raghav Gaiha)
- 197/2014 - Maternal Mortality, Religion and the Enrolment of Girls and Boys: Is there a Link? (Arusha Cooray, Stephan Klasen)
- 196/2014 - Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa? (Catherine Yap Co, Ralitza Dimova)
- 195/2014 - The political economy of social accountability in rural Uganda (Sophie King)
- 194/2014 - The WTO in Bali: What MC9 means for the Doha Development Agenda and why it matters? (Rorden Wilkinson, Erin Hannah, James Scott)
- 193/2014 - Cultivating political capabilities among Ugandan smallholders: good governance or popular organisation building? (Sophie King)
- 192/2014 - Client perceptions of the value of microinsurance: evidence from southern Ghana (Lena Giesbert, Susan Steiner)
- 191/2013 - Two Africas? Why Africa’s ‘Growth Miracle’ is barely reducing poverty (Paul Mosley)
- 190/2013 - Double burden of malnutrition: Why are Indian women likely to be underweight and obese? (Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, Raghav Gaiha)
- 189/2013 - Paths to development: is there a Bangladesh surprise? (M. Niaz Asadullah, Antonio Savoia, Wahiduddin Mahmud)
- 188/2013 - MDGs and gender inequality (Vani S. Kulkarni, Manoj Pandey, Raghav Gaiha)
- 187/2013 - A decade of poverty reduction in Kazakhstan 2000-2009: growth and/or redistribution? (Alma Kudebayeva, Armando Barrientos)
- 186/2013 - Gender production networks: Sustaining cocoa-chocolate sourcing in Ghana and India (Stephanie Barrientos)
- 185/2013 - Antipoverty transfers and labour force participation effects (Armando Barrientos, Juan Miguel Villa)
- 184/2013 - What has happened to the poorest 50%? (Amanda Lenhardt, Andrew Shepherd)
- 183/2013 - The impact of microcredit on child education: quasi-experimental evidence from rural China (Jing You, Samuel Annim)
- 182/2013 - Politicising poverty in Latin America in the light of Rawls’ ‘strains of commitment’ argument for a social minimum? (Armando Barrientos)
- 181/2013 - Have natural disasters become deadlier? (Raghav Gaiha, Kenneth Hill, Ganesh Thapa, Varsha S. Kulkarni)
- 180/2013 - Poverty and development thinking: synthesis or uneasy compromise? (David Hulme)
- 179/2012 - Fighting discrimination: W. Arthur Lewis and the dual economy of Manchester in the 1950s - Paul Mosley, Barbara Ingham
- 178/2012 - Urban poverty in Bangladesh: causes, consequences, and coping strategies - Nicola Banks
- 177/2012 - The West's aid dilemma and the Chinese solution? - Xiaobing Wang, Adam Ozanne
- 176/2012 - The projection of development: cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge? - David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock
- 175/2012 - The impact of food and economic crises on diet and nutrition - Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, Monnet B. P. Gbakou, Daniel Hoffman
- 174/2012 - On the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: a re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, 'History, institutions and economic performance' - Vegard Iversen, Richard Palmer-Jones, Kunal Sen
- 173/2012 - Microfinance and its role in household poverty reduction: findings from Pakistan - Asad K. Ghalib, Issam Malki, Katsushi S. Imai
- 172/2012 - A right price for rice? Côte d'Ivoire insights into the welfare implications of the 'global food crisis' - Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Gbakou
- 171/2012 - The role of NGOs and civil society in development and poverty reduction - Nicola Banks with David Hulme
- 170/2012 - Crop returns, prices, credit and poverty in Lao-PDR - Samuel Annim, Raghav Gaiha
- 169/2012 - Squeezing the state: tariff revenue, state capacity and the WTO's DohA Round - James Scott
- 168/2012 - Brave new world: global development goals after 2015 - David Hulme, Rorden Wilkinson
- 167/2012 - Is the Doha Round dead? What is the way forward? - Faizel Ismail
- 166/2012 - Changing of the guard: expert knowledge and 'common sense' in the Doha Development Agenda - James Scott, Rorden Wilkinson
- 165/2012 - Labour informality in Latin America: the case of Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru - Roxana Maurizio
- 164/2012 - Optimal public investment, growth and consumption: evidence from African countries - Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Yoseph Yilma Getachew, Thomas Ziesemer
- 163/2012 - Community and institutional responses to the challenges facing poor urban people in Khulna, Bangladesh in an era of climate change - Manoj Roy, Ferdous Jahan, David Hulme
- 162/2012 - Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among Dalits in rural India - Ira Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun
- 161/2012 - Spatial inequality and household poverty in Ghana - S. Annim, S. Mariwah, J. Sebu
- 160/2011 - The false promise of Aid for Trade - Mark Langan, James Scott (PDF, 162KB)
- 159/2011 - Adaptation and development: issues, evidence and policy relevance - David Alexander Clark (PDF, 205KB)
- 158/2011 - Reflections on a new democratic South Africa’s role in the multilateral trading system - Faizel Ismail (PDF, 119KB)
- 157/2011 - The Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis in India: manifestation, causal analysis, and regulatory response - Anurag Priyadarshee, Asad K. Ghalib (PDF, 73KB)
- 156/2011 - A story of (foretold) decline: artisan labour in India - Natalie Gupta (PDF, 107KB)
- 155/2011 - What's wrong and right with microfinance - missing an angle on responsible finance? - David Hulme, Thankom Arun (PDF, 71KB)
- 154/2011 - Estimating the depth of microfinance programme outreach: empirical findings from rural Pakistan - Asad K. Ghalib (PDF, 295KB)
- 153/2011 - 'Labour chains': analysing the role of labour contractors in global production networks - Stephanie Barrientos (PDF, 143KB)
- 152/2011 - Mind the gaps: a political economy of the multiple dimensions of China's rural-urban divide - Xiaobing Wang, Jenifer Piesse, Nick Weaver (PDF, 218KB)
- 151/2011 - Assessing wellbeing and deprivation in later life: A multidimensional counting approach - Armando Barrientos, Casilda Lasso de la Vega (PDF, 233KB)
- 150/2011 - Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa (Armando Barrientos and Julia Mase) Now published in European Journal of Development Research 24(4), 570–588.
- 149/2011 - Child health and mothers' social capital in Indonesia through crisis - Sujarwoto, Gindo Tampubolon (PDF, 346KB)
- 148/2011 - Poverty and climate change in urban Bangladesh (CLIMURB): an analytical framework - Manoj Roy with Simon Guy, David Hulme, Ferdous Jahan (PDF, 287KB)
- 147/2011 - Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: recent global evidence - Augustin Kwasi Fosu (PDF, 289KB)
- 146/2011 - Reconceiving social exclusion - Andrew M. Fischer (PDF, 226KB)
- 145/2011 - What explains cross-country growth in South Asia? Female education and the growth effect of international openness - Arusha Cooray, Sushanta Mallick (PDF, 189KB)
- 144/2011 - Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: research, policy and action in the context of climate change - Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy, David Hulme (PDF, 189KB)
- 143/2011 - Evaluating ten years of 'strategizing' for poverty reduction: a cross-sectional appraisal of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) initiative - Richard Marshall, Bernard Walters (PDF, 255KB)
- 142/2011 - Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades and the emergence of social assistance in Latin America - Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (PDF, 152KB)
- 141/2011 - Poverty, aspirations and wellbeing: afraid to aspire and unable to reach a better life - voices from Egypt - Solava Ibrahim (PDF, 144KB)
- 140/2010 - Inequality, income and poverty: comparative global evidence - Augustin Kwasi Fosu (PDF, 115KB)
- 139/2010 - The irrelevance of national strategies? Rural poverty creation and reduction in states and regions of India - Anirudh Krishna, Abusaleh Shariff (PDF, 208KB)
- 138/2010 - Economic governance of MFIs: inside the black box - Thankom Arun, Samuel Annim (PDF, 208KB)
- 137/2010 - Beyond the BICs: identifying the 'emerging middle powers' and understanding their role in global poverty reduction - James Scott, Matthias vom Hau, David Hulme (PDF, 178KB)
- 136/2010 - Decentralisation, democracy and allocation of poverty alleviation programmes in rural India - Takahiro Sato, Katsushi S. Imai (PDF, 169KB)
- 135/2010 - Cross-national comparison of monetary and multidimensional child poverty in the European Union: puzzling with the few pieces that the EU-SILC provides - Geranda Notten, Keetie Roelen (PDF, 365KB)
- 134/2010 - Evaluating poverty duration and transition: A spell-approach to rural China - Jing You (PDF, 83KB)
- 133/2010 - Global poverty estimates: Present and future - Shatakshee Dhongde, Camelia Minoiu (PDF, 230KB)
- 132/2010 - What have the poorest countries to gain from the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) - James Scott, Rorden Wilkinson (PDF, 132KB)
- 131/2010 - South-South trade and North-South politics: Emerging powers and the reconfiguration of global governance - James Scott (PDF, 111KB)
- 130/2010 - How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The five Cs of community-level development and BRAC's Ultra-Poor Programme - Anirudh Krishna, Meri Poghosyan, Narayan Das (PDF, 251KB)
- 129/2010 - Violent conflict and inequality - Cagatay Bircan, Tilman Brück, Marc Vothknecht (PDF, 245KB)
- 128/2010 - Beyond the craft ghetto: Harnessing creative industries to support development - Michael Todd (PDF, 97KB)
- 127/2010 - Microfinance efficiency trade-offs and complementarities - Samuel Kobina Annim (PDF, 271KB)
- 126/2010 - Interest rate formation in informal credit markets in India: does level of development matter? - Manojit Bhattacharjee, Meenakshi Rajeev (PDF, 240KB)
- 125/2010 - Politics, public expenditure and the evolution of poverty in Africa 1920-2009 - Sue Bowden, Paul Mosley (PDF, 590KB)
- 124/2010 - 'Marvellous intellectual feasts': Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics 1933-1948 - Barbara Ingham, Paul Mosley (PDF, 157KB)
- 123/2010 - Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India - Kunal Sen, Bibhas Saha, Dibyendu Maiti (PDF, 275KB)
- 122/2010 - Is household income diversification a means of survival or a means of accumulation? Panel data evidence from Tanzania - Ralitza Dimova, Kunal Sen (PDF, 175KB)
- 121/2010 - Poverty traps and livelihood options in rural Zimbabwe: Evidence from three districts - Blessing M. Chiripanhura (PDF, 246KB)
- 120/2010 - Proposing indicators to measure achievement and shortfall inequality consistently - Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Oihana Aristondo (PDF, 121KB)
- 119/2010 - Fertility impact of social transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa – What about pensions? - Göran Holmqvist (PDF, 344KB)
- 118/2010 - Should poverty researchers worry about inequality? - Armando Barrientos (PDF, 206KB)
- 117/2010 - An Andean Avatar: Post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for promoting extractive industries - Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington (PDF, 118KB)
- 116/2010 - Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom? - Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, Sam Hickey (PDF, 160KB)
- 115/2010 - Remitting behaviour of Turkish migrants: Evidence from household data in Germany - Hulya Ulku (PDF, 154KB)
- 114/2010 - Has civil society helped the poor? A review of the roles and contributions of civil society to poverty reduction - Solava Ibrahim, David Hulme (PDF, 133KB)
- 113/2010 - The World Bank's approach to increasing the vulnerability of small coffee producers - Sasha C. Breger Bush (PDF, 186KB)
- 112/2010 - How can asset accumulation strategies be meaningful for adivasis in Southern India? - Shoba Arun, Samuel Annim, Thankom Arun (PDF, 157KB)
- 111/2010 - Breaking the net: Family structure and street children in Zambia. - Francesco Strobbe, Claudia Olivetti, Mireille Jacobson (PDF, 474KB)
- 110/2010 - The political economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and prospect for the world's biggest promise - David Hulme, James Scott (PDF, 141KB)
- 109/2010 - The trend of the Gini coefficient of China - Jiandong Chen et al (PDF, 561KB)
- 108/2009 - Welfare Effects of Regressive Taxation and Subsidies in China - Xiaobing Wang, Jenifer Piesse (PDF, 217KB)
- 107/2009 - Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development - Michael Bamberger, Vijayendra Rao, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 229KB)
- 106/2009 - Do transfers generate local economy effects? - Armando Barrientos, Rachel Sabatés-Wheeler (PDF, 189KB)
- 105/2009 - Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals: Politics, Ethics, Evidence and an 'Unholy Alliance' - David Hulme (PDF, 152KB)
- 104/2009 - 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, Nuhu Salihu (PDF, 114KB)
- 103/2009 - Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico - Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Paul Mosley (PDF, 182KB)
- 102/2009 - New Actors, New Political Spaces, Same Divided City? Reflections on Poverty and the Politics of Urban Development in Salvador, Bahia - John Gledhill, Maria Gabriela Hita (PDF, 140KB)
- 101/2009 - Operational Framework for Integrating Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Urban Development - Christine Wamsler (PDF, 345KB)
- 100/2009 - The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) : A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise - David Hulme (PDF, 264KB)
- 99/2009 - 'We Have Always Lived Here': Indigenous Movements, Citizenship and Poverty in Argentina - Matthias vom Hau, Guillermo Wilde (PDF, 142KB)
- 98/2009 - Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty: Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa - Augustin Kwasi Fosu (PDF, 176KB)
- 97/2009 - Anthropologies of the Urban Periphery: Salvador, Bahia - Maria Gabriela Hita, John Gledhill (PDF, 207KB)
- 96/2009 - International Norm Dynamics and 'the End of Poverty': Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, David Hulme (PDF, 196KB)
- 95/2009 - Developing Countries in the ITO and GATT Negotiations - James Scott (PDF, 138KB)
- 94/2009 - Changing Articulations of Class and Ethnicity: A Villa Miseria in Buenos Aires - Alejandro Grimson (PDF, 131KB)
- 93/2009 - The Redistributive Threat: State Power and the Effect of Inequality on Democracy - Hillel David Soifer (PDF, 242KB)
- 92/2009 - The Tools of Transition: Education and Development in Modern Southeast Asian History - Tim Harper (PDF, 131KB)
- 91/2009 - Hiding Conflict over Industry Returns: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - Sarah Bracking (PDF, 119KB)
- 90/2009 - Strategising Consultation: Government Approaches to Legitimising Land Tenure Reform Policies in Post-apartheid South Africa - Elizabeth Fortin (PDF, 133KB)
- 89/2009 - Economic Development and Surplus Labour: A Critical Review of the Lewis Model - Xiaobing Wang, Jenifer Piesse (PDF, 202KB)
- 88/2009 - Targeting the Poor versus Financial Sustainability and External Funding: Evidence of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana - Samuel Kobina Annim (PDF, 193KB)
- 87/2009 - The Role of Microfinance in Asset-Building and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Sinapi Aba Trust of Ghana - Joseph Kimos Adjei, Thankom Arun, Farhad Hossain (PDF, 164KB)
- 86/2009 - Interim Institutions and the Development Process: Opening Spaces for Reform in Cambodia and Indonesia - Daniel Adler, Caroline Sage, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 167KB)
- 85/2009 - Flying Blind? Constructing Evidence-based Poverty Reduction Policies in PRSP Adopting Countries - Richard Marshall, Bernard Walters, Frederick Nixson (PDF, 213KB)
- 84/2009 - Development Finance, Private and Public Sectors in Zimbabwe: Sustainability or Odious Debt? - Sarah Bracking, Lloyd Sachikonye (PDF, 114KB)
- 83/2009 - Social Identities - Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Matthias vom Hau (PDF, 114KB)
- 82/2009 - Bismarckian Transformations in Contemporary Nicaragua? From Gang Member to Drug Dealer to Legal Entrepreneur - Dennis Rodgers (PDF, 135KB)
- 81/2009 - EU-MERCOSUR Trade Agreement: Potential Impacts on Rural Livelihoods and Gender (with Focus on Bio-fuels Feedstock Expansion) - Leonith Hinojosa (PDF, 166KB)
- 80/2009 - Non-governmental Organisations and African Wildlife Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis - Katherine Scholfield, Dan Brockington (PDF, 512KB)
- 79/2009 - Health in India Since Independence - Sunil S. Amrith (PDF, 488KB)
- 78/2009 - Global Poverty and Inequality: A Brief Retrospective and Prospective Analysis - Michael Woolcock (PDF, 142KB)
- 77/2009 - Energy and Natural Resource Dependency in Europe, 1600-1900 - Paul Warde (PDF, 165KB)
- 76/2009 - Savings, Credit, and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana - Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert, Susan Steiner (PDF, 264KB)
- 75/2009 - Trading on a Grant: Integrating Formal and Informal Social Protection in Post-Apartheid Migrant Networks - Andries du Toit, David Neves (PDF, 158KB)
- 74/2009 - 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, David Neves (PDF, 283KB)
- 73/2009 - Towards a Plurality of Methods in Project Evaluation: A Contextualised Approach to Understanding Impact Trajectories and Efficacy - Michael Woolcock (PDF, 117KB)
- 72/2009 - Microfinance Programmes and the Poor: Whom are They Reaching? Evidence from Ghana - Joseph Kimos Adjei, Thankom Arun (PDF, 147KB)
- 71/2009 - The Satisfied Poor: Evidence from South India - Daniel Neff (PDF, 184KB)
- 70/2009 - Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin - Alexander M. Danzer, Hulya Ulku (PDF, 214KB)
- 69/2009 - Soaring Food Prices: A Threat or Opportunity in Asia? - Ganesh Thapa, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai, Varsha S. Kulkarni (PDF, 105KB)
- 68/2009 - How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy? - Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter, Vijayendra Rao (PDF, 167KB)
- 67/2009 - The End of Literacy: The Growth and Measurement of British Public Education Since the Early 19th Century - David Vincent (PDF, 112KB)
- 66/2008 - Healthcare Policy for American Indians Since the Early 20th Century - Stephen J. Kunitz (PDF, 141KB)
- 65/2008 - Multidimensional Poverty in the Republic of Congo: Being Poor Simultaneously in Many Ways - Geranda Notten (PDF, 172KB)
- 64/2008 - Foodgrain Stocks, Prices and Speculation - Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa (PDF, 122KB)
- 63/2008 - Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: Evidence from NSS and NFHS in 1992-2006 - Katsushi S. Imai, Takahiro Sato (PDF, 386KB)
- 62/2008 - Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies Are Dependent on Mineral Resources - Keith Breckenridge (PDF, 113KB)
- 61/2008 - Over the Border and Under the Radar: Should Illegal Migrants Be Active Citizens? - Matthew Clarke (PDF, 104KB)
- 60/2008 - The Story of the Grameen Bank: From Subsidised Microcredit to Market-based Microfinance - David Hulme (PDF, 67KB)
- 59/2008 - Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development: The Case of Colonial India and Africa - C.A. Bayly (PDF, 151KB)
- 58/2008 - Historical Lessons about Contemporary Social Welfare: Chinese Puzzles and Global Challenges - R. Bin Wong (PDF, 127KB)
- 57/2008 - Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development - Anthony Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Maria Luisa Burneo, Ximena Warnaars (PDF, 160KB)
- 56/2008 - 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 (PDF, 161KB)
- 55/2008 - Micro-insurance in the Context of Social Protection - Thankom Arun, Susan Steiner (PDF, 75KB)
- 54/2008 - Microfinance - A Way Forward - Thankom Arun, David Hulme (PDF, 104KB)
- 53/2008 - Realist Ontology and Epistemology for Rural Research - Wendy Olsen (PDF, 209KB)
- 52/2008 - Social Transfers and Growth: A Review - Armando Barrientos, James Scott (PDF, 173KB)
- 51/2008 - Social Business Enterprises - Maximising Social Benefits or Maximising Profits? The Case of Grameen-Danone Foods Limited - Asad Kamran Ghalib, Farhad Hossain (PDF, 137KB)
- 50/2008 - Diamond mining, governance initiatives and post-conflict development in Sierra Leone - Roy Maconachie (PDF, 197KB)
- 49/2008 - International financial regulation, access to finance, systemic stability, and development - Emilios Avgouleas (PDF, 144KB)
- 48/2008 - The interpretation of globalization amongst Chinese business leaders: a managerial and organizational cognition approach - Aminu Mamman (PDF, 215KB)
- 47/2008 - Remitting and Saving Behaviour of International Migrants: Evidence from Turkish Households in Germany - Hulya Ulku
- 46/2008 - Arrested Development: The Political Origins and Socio-Economic Foundations of Common Violence in Jamaica - Imani Duncan-Waite, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 259KB)
- 45/2008 - Transmission of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and China - Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa (PDF, 145KB)
- 44/2008 - Survey Trust, Experimental Trust and ROSCA Membership in Rural Cameroon - Alvin Etang, David Fielding, Stephen Knowles (PDF, 165KB)
- 43/2008 - How important is the capacity of local governments for improvements in welfare? Evidence from decentralised Uganda - Susan Steiner (PDF, 184KB)
- 42/2008 - Aspiration paradox in Indian micro-finance: A difficulty and an opportunity for debate - Wendy Olsen (PDF, 120KB)
- 41/2008 - Was the Mandal Commission right? Living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India. - Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun (PDF, 105KB)
- 40/2008 - Not always in the people's interest: power-sharing arrangements in African peace agreements - Andreas Mehler (PDF, 170KB)
- 39/2008 - Institutions, Trade, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States - Mina Baliamoune-Lutz (PDF, 147KB)
- 38/2008 - Financing the Poor: Can microcredit make a difference? Empirical observations from Bangladesh - Farhad Hossain, Tonya Knight (PDF, 74KB)
- 37/2008 - Locating and Extending Livelihoods Research - Martin Prowse (PDF, 169KB)
- 36/2008 - Water Rights in South Africa: Insights from Legislative Reform - Philip Woodhouse (PDF, 164KB)
- 35/2008 - Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: reflections on land transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe. - Admos Chimhowu, Philip Woodhouse (PDF, 396KB)
- 34/2008 - Halving poverty in Post-HIPC-MDRI economies by 2015: How much will it cost and is it achievable? - Jacinta. C. Nwachukwu (PDF, 338KB)
- 33/2008 - Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes - Anthony Bebbington et al (PDF, 337KB)
- 32/2008 - Managing Assets and Vulnerability Contexts: Vistas of Gendered Livelihoods of Adivasi Women in South India - Shoba Arun (PDF, 519KB)
- 31/2008 - A macroeconomic policy approach to poverty reduction - Sushanta K. Mallick (PDF, 148KB)
- 30/2008 - Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution - Armando Barrientos, David Hulme (PDF, 100KB)
- 29/2008 - Helping the Needy: Factors Influencing the Development of Microfinance in Barbados - Tonya Knight, Farhad Hossain (PDF, 77KB)
- 28/2008 - Remittances, Poverty Reduction and Informalisation in Zimbabwe 2005-6: a political economy of dispossession? Sarah Bracking, Lloyd Sachikonye (PDF, 255KB)
- 27/2008 - Tracking economic policy and poverty outcomes in Mongolia - Richard Marshall, Frederick Nixson and Bernard Walters (PDF, 317KB)
- 26/2008 - The prospects for foreign debt sustainability in post-completion point countries: implications of the HIPC-MDRI framework - Jacinta Nwachukwu (PDF, 155KB)
- 25/2008 - Foreign capital inflows, economic policies and the real exchange rate in Sub Saharan Africa: is there an interaction effect? - Jacinta Nwachukwu (PDF, 127KB)
- 24/2008 - New agricultural frontiers in post-conflict Sierra Leone? Exploring institutional challenges for wetland management in the Eastern Province - Roy Maconachie (PDF, 221KB)
- 23/2008 - Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine - Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Weißhaar (PDF, 487KB)
- 22/2008 - 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, Wendy Wakeman (PDF, 171KB)
- 21/2008 - Adoption of the Internet in rural NGOs in Indonesia - a study on Internet appropriation for rural sector reform - Yanuar Nugroho (PDF, 701KB)
- 20/2008 - The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge - David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 112KB)
- 19/2008 - Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective - Tony Addison, David Hulme, Ravi Kanbur (PDF, 151KB)
- 18/2008 - An Optimisation Model for Use of the Vi Polysaccharide Vaccine to Prevent Typhoid in Developing Countries - Donald T. Lauria, Brian Maskery, Christine Poulos, Dale Whittington (PDF, 200KB)
- 17/2007 - Breaking Legal Inequality Traps: New Approaches to Building Justice Systems for the Poor in Developing Countries - Caroline Sage, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 96KB)
- 16/2007 - The making of the Millennium Development Goals: human development meets results-based management in an imperfect world - David Hulme (PDF, 123KB)
- 15/2007 - Caveat Emptor: The computable general equilibrium approach to assessing the poverty impact of trade liberalisation - Colin Kirkpatrick and S. Serban Scrieciu (PDF, 32KB)
- 14/2007 - Pro-Poor Growth: Explaining the Cross-Country Variation in the Growth Elasticity of Poverty - Ajay Chhibber, Gaurav Nayyar (PDF, 218KB)
- 13/2007 - Disparity, Deprivation and Discrimination in Rural India - Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa, Katsushi Imai and Vani S. Kulkarni (PDF, 115KB)
- 12/2007 - Using Mixed Methods to Assess Social Capital in Low Income Countries: A Practical Guide - Veronica Nyhan Jones, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 113KB)
- 11/2007 - State infrastructural power and nationalism: Comparative lessons from Mexico and Argentina - Matthias vom Hau (PDF, 99KB)
- 10/2007 - Poverty, Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam - Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha (PDF, 316KB)
- 09/2007 - A Relational Approach to the Theory and Practices of Economic Development - Michael Woolcock, Elizabeth Radin (PDF, 106KB)
- 08/2007 - Empowerment, Deliberative Development and Local Level Politics in Indonesia: Participatory Projects as a Source of Countervailing Power - Christopher Gibson, Michael Woolcock (PDF, 217KB)
- 07/2007 - Risks, rights, and needs: Compatible or contradictory bases for social protection? - Lauchlan T. Munro (PDF, 129KB)
- 06/2007 - Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: Lessons from existing programmes - Armando Barrientos (PDF, 136KB)
- 05/2007 - Financing Social Protection - Armando Barrientos (PDF, 81KB)
- 04/2007 - Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa - Sam Hickey (PDF, 150KB)
- 03/2007 - Political Incumbency and Drought Relief in Africa - Ngonidzashe Munemo (PDF, 98KB)
- 02/2007 - Contesting unfair international capitalism: Assessment of the effectiveness and impact of campaigning and advocacy from the NGO sector - Leonith Hinojosa et al (PDF, 142KB)
- 01/2007 - Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh: learning from BRAC's 'Targeting the Ultra Poor' Programme - David Hulme, Karen Moore (PDF, 194KB)
The Global Development Institute working paper series is a continuation of the Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper series which ran between 2007 and 2015.