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Connections and the Allocation of Public BenefitsWe explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be classified...
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Migration in the Development Studies LiteratureThis paper explores the role migration has played in development studies, and in debates on economic growth and poverty. It argues that, despite a recent surge of interest in international migration and remittances, research on human mobility...
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Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?There is a growing literature which analyses, using cross-country data, whether institutions or geography is the most important deep determinant of economic development. The empirical proxies for institutions used in this literature focus on the...
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Well-being and the Complexity of PovertyThis investigation studies human well-being from a subjective well-being approach. On the basis of a Mexican database the investigation shows that there is a weak relationship between subjective well-being and indicators of well-being such as income...
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Social Groups and Economic PovertyThis paper points to some elementary conflicts between the claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice as they manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly desirable...
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Individual Motivation, Its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within group BehaviourThe paper deals with evaluating the adequacy of the assumption that in economic transactions people are self-interested insofar as they are motivated solely by the concern of maximizing their own utility, and in particular with assessing how this...
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Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian ElitesThis paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty reduction. This...
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Identity and Space on the Borderland between Old and New in ShanghaiChina's urban geography has been dramatically altered over the past three decades. The co-presence of splinters in urban fabric—contrasting and continuously changing in terms of condition, use, and socio-cultural consistency—is symptomatic for the...
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Modern BureaucracyMax Weber believed that bureaucracy could be understood by analysing its ideal-typical characteristics, and that these characteristics would become more pervasive as the modern age advanced. Weber’s horizontal account of bureaucracy can be criticised...
Journal Article
"Wetin We for Do?" Women Entrepreneurs and the Niger Delta ConflictPart of Journal Special Issue Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Book Chapter
Place and Identity on the Borderland between Old and New in ShanghaiPart of Book Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?Part of Book Advancing Development
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Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mitigation...
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