The COVID-19 pandemic has hit at a time when microfinance is at its historical peak, with an
estimated 139 million microfinance customers globally. Cambodia's microfinance sector is …

Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home
is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary …

In the context of neoliberal financialization, what is the role of debt in agrarian change? To
address this question, I combine insights about debt from rural political ecology and …

Communal lands and natural resources in rural Cambodia have transformed over the past
30 years as the country attempts to transition from conflict to liberal democracy and …

The poverty reduction and developmental role of land titles has been a contested issue
since the concept was popularised in the early 2000s by Peruvian economist Hernando de …

Starting with the work of Hernando de Soto in the 1980s, the role of land tenure soon
attracted the attention of the international development community as a neoliberal-oriented …

In many agrarian societies, women come to own land, and people secure care in old age
through land inheritance. The social norms guiding inheritance shape gendered …

This dissertation examines how simultaneous social-ecological transformations including
environmental change, climate uncertainty and urbanization affect low income residents in …

Over the last 50 years, a combination of factors has driven sanitation improvements in rural
areas of low-income and emerging economies in Asia. While open defecation remains an …