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The LSE Department of International Development (ID) promotes interdisciplinary, post-graduate-level teaching and research on the social, political and economic dimensions of development and change. In particular, the research attempts to clarify the problems associated with poverty and late development within local communities, national political and economic systems and in the international system.
| Established | 1990 |
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| Address | Department of International Development
6-8th Floors, Connaught House London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom |
| Telephone | +44 20 7 955 74 25 |
| Fax | +44 20 7 955 68 44 |
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Content from this organization
Publications
Decentralizing for a Deeper Democracy and a More Supple StateCaptured Countryside? Stability and Change in Sub-national Support for African Incumbent Parties
Transformation from Below in Bolivia and Bangladesh
Instrumental Incoherence in Institutional Reform: Decentralization as a Structural Solution to Political Exigency
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
Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining
Why Settle for Less?
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?
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
A New Apartheid? Urban Spatiality, (Fear of) Crime, and Segregation in Cape Town, South Africa
The Hare and Tortoise: Does Slow and Steady Financial Liberalization Win the Race?
Corruption: Deconstructing the World Bank Discourse
The Great Tradition Globalizes
Social Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society in Rural Areas
Populism, Tamil Style: Is It Really a Success?
An Empowerment Approach to Female Migration
From Politicization of Grievances to Political Violence
Unveiling the Invisible Hand
Policy Coherence in International Responses to State Failure
Subsistence Capacity
The Real Option Approach to Privatise a Utility Where Information is Scarce
Middle Class Activism and Poor People's Politics
A Muddled Democracy - 'People Power' Philippine Style
A New-Old Approach to Industrial-cum-Immigration Policy
Basel II and Developing Countries
From Neo-Classical Economics to New Institutional Economics and Beyond
Coping with Environmental Change
Is Globalization making World Income Distribution more Equal?
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
Land Reforms in Asia
The World Bank & Rule of Law Reforms
Governing the Market: A Decade Later
Development Theory, Universal Values and Competing Paradigms
How Much Difference does Politics make?
Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing
Comparing Naughty BITS
Poverty Alleviation or Political Networking?
Corruption in World Bank Financed Projects
Industrial Policy, Trade-Agreements and Decisions in Time
The Fiction of Development: Knowledge, Authority and Representation
China and the Search for Better-than-MFN Access to the US
Decentralizing Bolivia
Social Funds and Decentralization: Optimal Institutional Design
Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure: Reform in Central Uganda
What is an Ethnic Group?
Democratization by Democratic Design
Government and External Risk Mitigation
Beyond 2015
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?
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
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
Market-Led Agrarian Reform
The Future of Development Management
Power and Choice in International Trade
Health Worker Motivation and the Role of Performance Based Finance Systems in Africa
No Business like Slum Business? The Political Economy of the Continued Existence of Slums
Democratic Pragmatism or Green Radicalism?
Institutions Collide: A Study of "Caste-Based" Collective Criminality and Female Infanticide in India, 1789-1871
Reading Tea Leaves
The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Afica
Consumption, Development and the Private Sector
Furthering Financial Literacy
Good Estimation or Good Luck?
Can School Decentralization Improve Learning?
Shadow Education
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
Explaining African Ethnic Diversity