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Growth and Poverty – Economics and Development
Books:
Building Knowledge Economies: Advanced Strategies for Development. - World Bank.
Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives / - Butterfield, Alice K. Johnson; Korazim-Kîorèosy, Yossi
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth / - Rodrik, Dani
Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals: Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda
Africa's Infrastructure: a Time for Transformation
African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors
Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy Law in Transition
Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa
Guide to Project Management: Achieving Lasting Benefit through Effective Change
Journal Articles:
Cambridge Journal of Economics; Vol.34, Issue 1
Theorising technology. By Philip Faulkner, Clive Lawson, and Jochen Runde
Technology, objects and things in Heidegger. By G. Harman
Marxism and the critique of social rationality: from surplus value to the politics of technology. ByAndrew Feenberg
How is technology made?—That is the question!By Wiebe E. Bijker
On making infrastructure visible: putting the non-humans to rights.By Trevor Pinch
What's special about human technology? ByRobert Aunger
The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research. By Wanda J. Orlikowski
Technology and economic theory. By J. Stan Metcalfe
Technological revolutions and techno-economic paradigms. By Carlota Perez
Cambridge Journal of Economics; Vol. 34 no. 3
Accumulation of knowledge and accumulation of capital in early ‘theories’ of growth and development. By Renee Prendergast
Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest. By Tony Aspromourgos, Daniel Rees, and Graham White
Works councils and employment growth in German establishments. By Uwe Jirjahn
Why do hurdle rates differ from the cost of capital?By Ciaran Driver and Paul Temple
Little innovation, many jobs: An econometric analysis of the Italian labour productivity crisis. By Federico Lucidi and Alfred Kleinknecht
Community Development Journal: an International Forum; Vol. 45 no. 2
Transformation through training: application of emancipatory methods in a housing education programme for rural women in South Africa. By Marietjie van der Merwe and Ruth M. Albertyn
Caught in the vortex: can local government community development workers succeed in South Africa? By Mel Gray and Betty Mubangizi
Mining and community development: problems and possibilities of local-level practice. By Deanna Kemp
Communities of citizens and ‘indicators’ of sustainability. By Andy Scerri and Paul James
Introducing a community work perspective in local policy-making: a pilot community intervention in the Municipality of Aigeiros. By Thrace, GreeceVassilis Karagkounis
IDS Bulletin; Vol. 41 no.3
Introduction: Why Reflect Collectively on Capacities for Change? By Peter Clarke and Katy Oswald
Vices and Virtues in Capacity Development by International NGOs. By Rick James
Multiple Faces of Power and Learning. By Jethro Pettit
Values as a Driver for Capacity Development: Promoting Justice in Papua New Guinea. By Frazer Pitpit and Heather Baser
Between Pragmatismand Idealism: Implementing a Systemic Approach to Capacity Development. By Catherine Fisher
The Journal of Modern African Studies; Vol. 48 no. 2
From food aid to food security: the case of the Safety Net policy in Ethiopia. By Carly Bishop and Dorothea Hilhorst
Power-sharing in comparative perspective: the dynamics of ‘unity government’ in Kenya and Zimbabwe. By Nic Cheeseman and Blessing-Miles Tendi
The chief, the youth and the plantation: communal politics in southern Nigeria. By Pauline von Hellermann
Fairy godfathers and magical elections: understanding the 2003 electoral crisis in Anambra State, Nigeria. By Leena Hoffmann
Population and Development Review; Vol. 36, Issue 1
Beyond Material Explanations: Family Solidarity and Mortality, a Small Area-level Analysis. By Jon Anson
Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment in Less Developed Countries. By Monica J. Grant, Jere R. Behrman
Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America. By Deborah Levison, Anna Langer
Growing Diversity among America's Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions. By Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel T. Lichter
Socio-Economic Review; Vol 8, issue 2
The asymmetry of European integration, or why the EU cannot be a ‘social market economy’. By Fritz W. Scharpf
Globalization, labour power and partisan politics revisited. By Hyeok Yong Kwon and Jonas Pontusson
How macro-level sampling affects micro-level arguments: a rejoinder to Steven Casper. By Andrea M. Herrmann
Labour and the global financial crisis. By Lucio Baccaro, Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Marino Regini, Paul Marginson, Richard Hyman, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, and Ruth Milkman
Behavioural economics. By Amitai Etzioni, Michael J. Piore, and Wolfgang Streeck
Donald MacKenzie An Engine Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2006; Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009. By Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Geoffrey Ingham
World Development; Vol. 38 no. 3
Aid and Debt Relief in Africa: Have They Been Substitutes or Complements? By Robert Powell, Graham Bird
Is Corporate Aid Targeted to Poor and Deserving Countries? A Case Study of Nestlé’s Aid Allocation. By Laura Metzger, Peter Nunnenkamp, Toman Omar Mahmoud
Is Corruption an Efficient Grease? By Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Laurent Weill
A Critical Appraisal of McKinnon’s Complementarity Hypothesis: Does the Real Rate of Return on Money Matter for Investment in Developing Countries? By Tomoe Moore
Child Nutrition, Health Problems, and School Achievement in Sri Lanka. By Suzanne L.W. Wisniewski
Health Insurance and Other Risk-Coping Strategies in Uganda: The Case of Microcare Insurance Ltd. By Marleen Dekker, Annegien Wilms
Gold Digging Careers in Rural East Africa: Small-Scale Miners’ Livelihood Choices. By Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson
Do Interventions at School Level Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from a Rural Program in Colombia. By Catherine Rodríguez, Fabio Sánchez, Armando Armenta
World Development; Vol. 38 no. 4
The Developing World’s Bulging (but Vulnerable) Middle Class. By Martin Ravallion
Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of Foreign Direct Investment? A Gravity-Equation Approach. By Hidemi Kimura, Yasuyuki Todo
Investment Climate and FDI in Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence. By Tidiane Kinda
Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia. By Bob Rijkers, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Francis Teal
Poverty Status and the Impact of Formal Credit on Technology Use and Wellbeing among Ethiopian Smallholders. By Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool, Alex Winter-Nelson
Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: Resources, Constraints, and Interventions. By Agnes R. Quisumbing, Lauren Pandolfelli
Are Female-Headed Households More Food Insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh. By Debdulal Mallick, Mohammad Rafi
World Development; Vol. 38 no. 5
Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002. By Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia
The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labor and School Attendance: Evidence From Aggregate and Individual-Level Data. By Bernhard Boockmann
The Effect of Infrastructure Access and Quality on Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Indonesia. By John Gibson, Susan Olivia
Has Mercantilism Reduced Urban Poverty in SSA? Perception of Boom, Bust, and the China–Africa Trade in Lomé and Bamako. By Michal Lyons, Alison Brown
Disentangling Bargaining Power from Individual and Household Level to Institutions: Evidence on Women’s Position in Ethiopia. By Ramzi Mabsout, Irene van Staveren
World Development; Vol. 38 no. 6
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: Findings from Case Studies. By Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil. By Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez, Marc-Andreas Muendler, Jennifer P. Poole
Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development. By Karen Macours, Renos Vakis
Linkages Between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programs and Labor Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience. By Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Côrtes Neri, Hyun H. Son
Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Emmanuel Skoufias, Kathy Lindert, Joseph Shapiro
World Development; Vol. 38 no. 7
“Trade Matters in the Fight Against Poverty”: Narratives, Perceptions, and (Lack of) Evidence in the Case of Fish Trade in Africa Christophe Béné, Rebecca Lawton, Edward H. Allison
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income? By Monica Fisher, Jeffrey J. Reimer, Edward R. Carr
Women’s Empowerment and the Creation of Social Capital in Indian Villages. By Wendy Janssens
How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China. By Qin Gao, Fuhua Zhai, Irwin Garfinkel
The Impact of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Mexico: A Propensity Score-Matching Approach. By Javier Becerril, Awudu Abdulai
Integrated Nutrient Management for Sustainable Crop Production / - Aulakh, Milkha S; Grant, Cynthia A
Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy / - Deal, Robert L. (Robert Leslie); White, Rachel; Benson, Gary L
Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues
Climate Change: a Multidisciplinary Approach
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor
Climate-Change Policy
Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines
Global Warming and Climate Change: Prospects and Policies in Asia and Europe
The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is being kept out of Africa
What We Know about Climate Change
Journal Articles:
Journal of Environmental Management; Vol. 91 no. 6
Current use of impact models for agri-environment schemes and potential for improvements of policy design and assessment. By Jørgen Primdahl, Jens Peter Vesterager, John A. Finn, George Vlahos, Lone Kristensen, Henrik Vejre
The effect of information on public acceptance – The case of water from alternative sources. By Sara Dolnicar, Anna Hurlimann, Long Duc Nghiem
Assessing the sustainability of forest management: An application of multi-criteria decision analysis to community forests in northern Ethiopia. By Bedru Babulo Balana, Erik Mathijs, Bart Muys
A comparison of relative abundance versus class data in diatom-based quantitative reconstructions. By Sven Adler, Thomas Hübener, Mirko Dreßler, André F. Lotter, N. John Anderson
Journal of Environmental Management; Vol. 91 no. 7
Assessment of temporal trends in ecosystem health using an holistic indicator. By Jessica Wiegand, Dave Raffaelli, James C.R. Smart, Piran C.L. White
Mapping the vulnerability of groundwater to the contamination of four carbonate aquifers in Europe. By J. Vías, B. Andreo, N. Ravbar, H. Hötzl
Evaluation of biogas production from seaweed in batch tests and in UASB reactors combined with the removal of heavy metals. By Valentine Nkongndem Nkemka, Marika Murto
Environment and productivities in developed and developing countries: The case of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. By Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi
A multicriteria model for planning agricultural regions within a context of groundwater rational management. By B. Manos, J. Papathanasiou, Th. Bournaris, K. Voudouris
Journal of Environmental Management; Vol. 91 no. 8
Embedded value systems in sustainability assessment tools and their implications. By Alexandros Gasparatos
Municipal solid waste management in China: Status, problems and challenges. By Dong Qing Zhang, Soon Keat Tan, Richard M. Gersberg
Using local experts as benchmarks for household local ecological knowledge: Scoring in South African savannas. By Melita Z. Steele, Charlie M. Shackleton
Winery wastewater treatment using the land filter technique. By E.W. Christen, W.C. Quayle, M.A. Marcoux, M. Arienzo, N.S. Jayawardane
Integrating local and scientific knowledge for environmental management. By Christopher M. Raymond, Ioan Fazey, Mark S. Reed, Lindsay C. Stringer, Guy M. Robinson, Anna C. Evely
Detection and mapping of water pollution variation in the Nile Delta using multivariate clustering and GIS techniques. By M. Shaban, B. Urban, A. El Saadi, M. Faisal
Design and risk assessment tool for vegetative treatment areas receiving agricultural wastewater: Preliminary results. By Joshua W. Faulkner, Zachary M. Easton, Wei Zhang, Larry D. Geohring, Tammo S. Steenhuis
Adult Development and Well-being: the Impact of Institutional Environments / - Dulmus, Catherine N; Sowers, Karen M. (Karen Marlaine)
Reclaiming the Resources for Health: a Regional Analysis of Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa / - EQUINET (Firm)
Academic Freedom and the Social Responsibilities of Academics in Tanzania
Courage and Hope: Stories from Teachers Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
Legal Frameworks for Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Quest for Institutional Responsiveness
Social Security Reform: Financial and Political Issues in International Perspective
Teachers for Rural Schools: Experiences in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Journal Articles:
Health Policy and Planning; Vol. 25 no. 3
Country-level governance of global health initiatives: an evaluation of immunization coordination mechanisms in five countries of Asia. By John Grundy
From public to private and back again: sustaining a high service-delivery level during transition of management authority: a Cambodia case study. By Bart Jacobs, Jean-Marc Thomé, Rob Overtoom, Sam Oeun Sam, Lorenz Indermühle, and Neil Price
Health care utilization in Ecuador: a multilevel analysis of socio-economic determinants and inequality issues. By Daniel F López-Cevallos and Chunhuei Chi
Prices, availability and affordability of essential medicines in rural areas of Hubei Province, China. By Hao Yang, Hassan H Dib, Minmin Zhu, Gang Qi, and Xinping Zhang
Willingness to pay for zinc treatment of childhood diarrhoea in a rural population of Bangladesh. By Shamima Akhter and Charles P Larson
Expenditure on obstetric care and the protective effect of insurance on the poor: lessons from two Indonesian districts. By Zahidul Quayyum, Mardiati Nadjib, Tim Ensor, and Purwa Kurnia Sucahya
Twenty years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Achievements in and challenges for child protection implementation, measurement and evaluation around the world. By Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Yanghee Lee
Persistent socioeconomic and political dilemmas to the implementation of the 1989 United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child in sub-Saharan Africa. By Munyae M. Mulinge
Monitoring the commitment and child-friendliness of governments: A new approach from Africa. By Assefa Bequele
Protecting children from violence and maltreatment: A qualitative comparative analysis assessing the implementation of U.N. CRC Article 19. By Kimberly A. Svevo-Cianci, Stuart N. Hart, Claude Rubinson
Methodological challenges in measuring child maltreatment. By Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé, John Fluke, Bruce MacLaurin, Lil Tonmyr, Ying-Ying Yuan
Child Abuse & Neglect; Vol. 34 no. 3
Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: A latent class analysis. By Kate B. Nooner, Alan J. Litrownik, Richard Thompson, Benjamin Margolis, Diana J. English, Elizabeth D. Knight, Mark D. Everson, Scott Roesch
Latent class/profile analysis in maltreatment research: A commentary on Nooner et al., Pears et al., and looking beyond. By Scott C. Roesch, Miguel Villodas, Feion Villodas
Identifying experiences of physical and psychological violence in childhood that jeopardize mental health in adulthood. By Emily A. Greenfield, Nadine F. Marks
Domestic violence assessments in the child advocacy center. By Jonathan D. Thackeray, Philip V. Scribano, Dale Rhoda
Primary prevention of parent-child conflict and abuse in Iranian mothers: A randomized-controlled trial. By Sonia Oveisi, Hassan Eftekhare Ardabili, Mark R. Dadds, Reza Majdzadeh, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani, Javad Alaqband Rad, Zahra Shahrivar
A Cross-Cultural Theory of Voter Behavior / - Cwalina, Wojciech - Falkowski, Andrzej; Newman, Bruce
How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government / - Mackay, Keith Robin, 1951- - World Bank. Independent Evaluation Group.
Reflections on Tanzania's First Multi-Party Parliament: 1995 - 2000 - Msekwa, Pius
Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: a Handbook for Development Practitioners / - Kusek, Jody Zall, 1952- - Rist, Ray C
African Politics in Comparative Perspective
Democratic Participation in rural Tanzania and Zambia: the Impact of Civic Education
Global Governance, Development and Human Security: the Challenge of Poverty and Inequality
Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil
Journal Articles:
Public administration and development: a journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration; Vol. 30 no. 2
The future of development management: Introduction to the special issue. By Willy McCourt, Nilima Gulrajani
Pockets of effective agencies in weak governance states: Where are they likely and why does it matter? By David K. Leonard
International development management: A Northern perspective. By Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Derick W. Brinkerhoff
International development management through a Southern lens. By Khaldoun AbouAssi
From global paradigms to grounded policies: Local socio-cognitive constructions of international development policies and implications for development management. By Jenny Knowles Morrison
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