Development Studies

The idea that development projects in poor countries are most effective when they harness the agency of women is a well known theme. Most studies o...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online an...

How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prev...

The Global Lab tells the story of a group of organizations and corporations using low-income countries as a laboratory. It reveals experiments with...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized comme...

An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The f...