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The LSE's Department of International Development was established in 1990 to promote interdisciplinary post-graduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change. Its working papers mainly focus on institutional change and reform, governance, human rights, international development and globalization.

Publishers:	LSE Department of International Development (ID)
Publications:	Decentralizing for a Deeper Democracy and a More Supple State Captured Countryside? Stability and Change in Sub-national Support for African Incumbent Parties Instrumental Incoherence in Institutional Reform: Decentralization as a Structural Solution to Political Exigency Transformation from Below in Bolivia and Bangladesh The Democratic Contribution of Participatory Budgeting Reframing African Political Economy: Clientelism, Rents and Accumulation as Drivers of Capitalist Transformation Refining Oil – A Way out of the Resource Curse? The Rise of 'Murky Protectionism': Changing Patterns of Trade-Related Industrial Policies in Developing Countries Why Settle for Less? Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining Estimating Incumbency Advantages in African Politics Negotiating Protection Under Overlapping Free Trade Agreements Creation and Shifting of Rents within Bilateral Free Trade Agreement Blocs Explaining Utilization of Free Trade Agreements by Sectoral Interests and Binding of Unilateral Concessions Formulation of East Asian Free Trade Agreements: Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Across Borders The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Is History Repeating itself? Disentangling the Fall of a 'Dominant-Hegemonic Party Rule' Enabling Productive Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Beyond 'Fear of Death': Strategies of Coping with Violence and Insecurity What Accounts for Opposition Party Strength? Between Fear and Compassion: How Refugee Concerns Shape Responses to Humanitarian Emergencies Worlds Apart? Health-Seeking Behavior and Strategic Healthcare Planning in Sierra Leone War by Other Means? An Analysis of the Contested Terrain of Transitional Justice under the ‘Victor’s Peace’ in Sri Lanka Social Welfare Policy – a Panacea for Peace? Women and the Soft Sell Human vs. State Security: How Can Security Sector Reforms Contribute to State-Building? Evaluating the Impact of Decentralisation on Educational Outcomes Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer to Developing Countries Traditional or Transformational Development? Social Welfare, Health and Pharmaceutical Industry The Demographic Dividend in India When Passion Dries Out, Reason Takes Control Micro-Credit – More Lifebuoy than Ladder? How Wide a Net? Explaining African Ethnic Diversity Consumption, Development and the Private Sector Shadow Education Can School Decentralization Improve Learning? Good Estimation or Good Luck? Furthering Financial Literacy Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction Democratic Pragmatism or Green Radicalism? Market-Led Agrarian Reform The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Afica Reading Tea Leaves Institutions Collide: A Study of "Caste-Based" Collective Criminality and Female Infanticide in India, 1789-1871 Health Worker Motivation and the Role of Performance Based Finance Systems in Africa Policy Coherence in International Responses to State Failure The Future of Development Management From Politicization of Grievances to Political Violence Power and Choice in International Trade No Business like Slum Business? The Political Economy of the Continued Existence of Slums Crisis in the Countryside From Rebels to Politicians. Explaining Rebel- to-Party Transformations after Civil War Guarding the State or Protecting the Economy? Man is the Remedy of Man Resolving the Theoretical Ambiguities of Social Exclusion with Reference to Polarisation and Conflict Political Institutions, Size of Government and Redistribution Managing Conspiracy Theories in Public Health Explaining Pareto-Inefficient International Cooperation Using Argentina’s Bilateral Investment Treaties Will ‘Devolution’ Improve the Accountability and Responsiveness of Social Service Delivery in Balochistan, Pakistan? Opening the Gates to the Formal and Legal City Assessing the Prospects for Market-Mediated Land Reform Unveiling the Invisible Hand Democratization by Democratic Design Understanding the Breakdown in North East India A Tale of Two Upazilas The Institutional Political Economy of State-Led Economic Reform State of the Displaced An Empowerment Approach to Female Migration Subsistence Capacity Basel II and Developing Countries The World Bank & Rule of Law Reforms Corruption in World Bank Financed Projects Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing Comparing Naughty BITS Poverty Alleviation or Political Networking? Middle Class Activism and Poor People's Politics China and the Search for Better-than-MFN Access to the US The Fiction of Development: Knowledge, Authority and Representation Social Funds and Decentralization: Optimal Institutional Design Decentralizing Bolivia Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure: Reform in Central Uganda Government and External Risk Mitigation Beyond 2015 What is an Ethnic Group? The Real Option Approach to Privatise a Utility Where Information is Scarce Industrial Policy, Trade-Agreements and Decisions in Time Disembedding the City Human Rights and Development: The World Bank’s Need for a Consistent Approach The Good Governance Agenda: Who Wins and Who Loses Technology, Justice and Imagination Soil and Struggle India: The Bitter Fruits of Grandiose Ambition Is There a Development Case for United Nations Business Partnerships? The Anti-Politics Machine Revisited Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO From 'Antipolitics' to 'Anti-Politics': What Became of East European 'Civil Society'? The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection A Model of Central vs Decentralized Government The Determinants of Central vs Local Government Investment Trauma and Conflict Prevention We Live in a State of Siege: Violence, Crime, and Gangs in Post-Conflict Urban Nicaragua On Trust, and Trust in Indian Business: Ethnographic Explorations Institutions, Politics and Culture: A Case for 'Old' Institutionalism in the Study of Historical Change Globalization, Poverty and Income Distribution: Does the Liberal Argument Hold? Consolidating Democracy: Political Society and NGOs in Thailand Rights, Representation and the Poor: Comparisons Across Latin America and India Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in South Africa Telecommunications for All: Does Liberalization Help? Discourses of Disasters, Discourses of Relief and DFID's Humanitarian Aid Policy Globalisation and Social Exclusion in Citites Wars and Votes: Power, Conflict and Institutions Gestalt Shift: From 'Miracle' to 'Cronyism' in the Asian Crisis Out of the Box: Rethinking the Governance of International Financial Markets The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in International Development The American Empire and Its Limits The Livelihood Conflicts Approach on Trial in Rwanda Corruption: Deconstructing the World Bank Discourse The Hare and Tortoise: Does Slow and Steady Financial Liberalization Win the Race? The Great Tradition Globalizes Social Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society in Rural Areas Populism, Tamil Style: Is It Really a Success? A Muddled Democracy - 'People Power' Philippine Style A New Apartheid? Urban Spatiality, (Fear of) Crime, and Segregation in Cape Town, South Africa Coping with Environmental Change From Neo-Classical Economics to New Institutional Economics and Beyond Is Globalization making World Income Distribution more Equal? A New-Old Approach to Industrial-cum-Immigration Policy Radio Broadcasting and Rural Development in Africa Dropping the Debt for the New Millennium Humanitarianism and Developmental Assistance Regional Distribution Dynamics of GDPs Across Indian States, 1965-1988 Children in Extreme Situations Governing the Market: A Decade Later Development Theory, Universal Values and Competing Paradigms How Much Difference does Politics make? Land Reforms in Asia

Publishers:

LSE Department of International Development (ID)

Publications:

Decentralizing for a Deeper Democracy and a More Supple State
Captured Countryside? Stability and Change in Sub-national Support for African Incumbent Parties
Instrumental Incoherence in Institutional Reform: Decentralization as a Structural Solution to Political Exigency
Transformation from Below in Bolivia and Bangladesh
The Democratic Contribution of Participatory Budgeting
Reframing African Political Economy: Clientelism, Rents and Accumulation as Drivers of Capitalist Transformation
Refining Oil – A Way out of the Resource Curse?
The Rise of 'Murky Protectionism': Changing Patterns of Trade-Related Industrial Policies in Developing Countries
Why Settle for Less?
Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining
Estimating Incumbency Advantages in African Politics
Negotiating Protection Under Overlapping Free Trade Agreements
Creation and Shifting of Rents within Bilateral Free Trade Agreement Blocs
Explaining Utilization of Free Trade Agreements by Sectoral Interests and Binding of Unilateral Concessions
Formulation of East Asian Free Trade Agreements: Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Across Borders
The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Is History Repeating itself?
Disentangling the Fall of a 'Dominant-Hegemonic Party Rule'
Enabling Productive Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Beyond 'Fear of Death': Strategies of Coping with Violence and Insecurity
What Accounts for Opposition Party Strength?
Between Fear and Compassion: How Refugee Concerns Shape Responses to Humanitarian Emergencies
Worlds Apart? Health-Seeking Behavior and Strategic Healthcare Planning in Sierra Leone
War by Other Means? An Analysis of the Contested Terrain of Transitional Justice under the ‘Victor’s Peace’ in Sri Lanka
Social Welfare Policy – a Panacea for Peace?
Women and the Soft Sell
Human vs. State Security: How Can Security Sector Reforms Contribute to State-Building?
Evaluating the Impact of Decentralisation on Educational Outcomes
Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer to Developing Countries
Traditional or Transformational Development?
Social Welfare, Health and Pharmaceutical Industry
The Demographic Dividend in India
When Passion Dries Out, Reason Takes Control
Micro-Credit – More Lifebuoy than Ladder?
How Wide a Net?
Explaining African Ethnic Diversity
Consumption, Development and the Private Sector
Shadow Education
Can School Decentralization Improve Learning?
Good Estimation or Good Luck?
Furthering Financial Literacy
Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction
Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction
Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction
Pro-poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010: An Introduction
Democratic Pragmatism or Green Radicalism?
Market-Led Agrarian Reform
The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Afica
Reading Tea Leaves
Institutions Collide: A Study of "Caste-Based" Collective Criminality and Female Infanticide in India, 1789-1871
Health Worker Motivation and the Role of Performance Based Finance Systems in Africa
Policy Coherence in International Responses to State Failure
The Future of Development Management
From Politicization of Grievances to Political Violence
Power and Choice in International Trade
No Business like Slum Business? The Political Economy of the Continued Existence of Slums
Crisis in the Countryside
From Rebels to Politicians. Explaining Rebel- to-Party Transformations after Civil War
Guarding the State or Protecting the Economy?
Man is the Remedy of Man
Resolving the Theoretical Ambiguities of Social Exclusion with Reference to Polarisation and Conflict
Political Institutions, Size of Government and Redistribution
Managing Conspiracy Theories in Public Health
Explaining Pareto-Inefficient International Cooperation Using Argentina’s Bilateral Investment Treaties
Will ‘Devolution’ Improve the Accountability and Responsiveness of Social Service Delivery in Balochistan, Pakistan?
Opening the Gates to the Formal and Legal City
Assessing the Prospects for Market-Mediated Land Reform
Unveiling the Invisible Hand
Democratization by Democratic Design
Understanding the Breakdown in North East India
A Tale of Two Upazilas
The Institutional Political Economy of State-Led Economic Reform
State of the Displaced
An Empowerment Approach to Female Migration
Subsistence Capacity
Basel II and Developing Countries
The World Bank & Rule of Law Reforms
Corruption in World Bank Financed Projects
Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing
Comparing Naughty BITS
Poverty Alleviation or Political Networking?
Middle Class Activism and Poor People's Politics
China and the Search for Better-than-MFN Access to the US
The Fiction of Development: Knowledge, Authority and Representation
Social Funds and Decentralization: Optimal Institutional Design
Decentralizing Bolivia
Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure: Reform in Central Uganda
Government and External Risk Mitigation
Beyond 2015
What is an Ethnic Group?
The Real Option Approach to Privatise a Utility Where Information is Scarce
Industrial Policy, Trade-Agreements and Decisions in Time
Disembedding the City
Human Rights and Development: The World Bank’s Need for a Consistent Approach
The Good Governance Agenda: Who Wins and Who Loses
Technology, Justice and Imagination
Soil and Struggle
India: The Bitter Fruits of Grandiose Ambition
Is There a Development Case for United Nations Business Partnerships?
The Anti-Politics Machine Revisited
Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO
From 'Antipolitics' to 'Anti-Politics': What Became of East European 'Civil Society'?
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection
A Model of Central vs Decentralized Government
The Determinants of Central vs Local Government Investment
Trauma and Conflict Prevention
We Live in a State of Siege: Violence, Crime, and Gangs in Post-Conflict Urban Nicaragua
On Trust, and Trust in Indian Business: Ethnographic Explorations
Institutions, Politics and Culture: A Case for 'Old' Institutionalism in the Study of Historical Change
Globalization, Poverty and Income Distribution: Does the Liberal Argument Hold?
Consolidating Democracy: Political Society and NGOs in Thailand
Rights, Representation and the Poor: Comparisons Across Latin America and India
Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in South Africa
Telecommunications for All: Does Liberalization Help?
Discourses of Disasters, Discourses of Relief and DFID's Humanitarian Aid Policy
Globalisation and Social Exclusion in Citites
Wars and Votes: Power, Conflict and Institutions
Gestalt Shift: From 'Miracle' to 'Cronyism' in the Asian Crisis
Out of the Box: Rethinking the Governance of International Financial Markets
The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in International Development
The American Empire and Its Limits
The Livelihood Conflicts Approach on Trial in Rwanda
Corruption: Deconstructing the World Bank Discourse
The Hare and Tortoise: Does Slow and Steady Financial Liberalization Win the Race?
The Great Tradition Globalizes
Social Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society in Rural Areas
Populism, Tamil Style: Is It Really a Success?
A Muddled Democracy - 'People Power' Philippine Style
A New Apartheid? Urban Spatiality, (Fear of) Crime, and Segregation in Cape Town, South Africa
Coping with Environmental Change
From Neo-Classical Economics to New Institutional Economics and Beyond
Is Globalization making World Income Distribution more Equal?
A New-Old Approach to Industrial-cum-Immigration Policy
Radio Broadcasting and Rural Development in Africa
Dropping the Debt for the New Millennium
Humanitarianism and Developmental Assistance
Regional Distribution Dynamics of GDPs Across Indian States, 1965-1988
Children in Extreme Situations
Governing the Market: A Decade Later
Development Theory, Universal Values and Competing Paradigms
How Much Difference does Politics make?
Land Reforms in Asia