Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

Adaptive Social Protection refers to efforts to integrate social protection (SP), disaster risk
reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), the need for which is increasingly …

We measure the impact of increasing integration between rural villages and outside labor
markets. Seasonal flash floods cause exogenous and unpredictable loss of market access …

Postsocialist transitions in eastern Europe have focused on the establishment of private
property rights, often to the exclusion of other aspects of rural land-use systems. After the …

This paper explores empirically within-household gender and sibling differences in child
labor, domestic work, and schooling of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan children. The main …

Mobile money has become a lifeline for millions of poor people who have limited access to a
formal banking system. It encompasses a wide range of benefits such as women's …

We present work applying a similarly parameterized urbanization model to two diverse
regions of the world, one in the USA and another in Albania. Eight calibration metrics are …

Abstract As Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen has argued “[Bangladesh's development
achievements have] important lessons for other countries across the globe,[in particular a …

This article invokes Gramscian theory in an effort to better grasp the reorganization of social
reproduction under neoliberal globalization. It argues that recent transformations in the …

Evidence indicates that a much-feted conditional cash transfer programme designed to
widen access to basic education in Bangladesh has failed in its aims. The programme is …