Working papers

WP71 (PDF)

Basel II and Development Countries: Understanding the Implications Robert Bailey (2005)

WP70 (PDF)

The World Bank & Rule of Law Reforms Gordon Barron (2005)

WP68 (PDF)

Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing: A case study on Tamil Nadu, India Pritha Venkatachalam (2005)

WP48 (PDF)

The Good Governance Agenda: Who Wins and Who Loses. Some Empirical Evidence for 2001 Julie Aubut (2004)

WP43 (PDF)

The Anti-Politics Machine Revisited: The Accommodation of Power and the Depoliticization of Development and Relief in Rural India Joseph Tordella  (2003)

WP36 (PDF)

"We live in a State of Siege": Violence, Crime, and Gangs in Post-Conflict Urban Nicaragua Dr Dennis Rodgers (2002)

WP33 (PDF)

Globalization, Poverty and Income Distribution: Does the Liberal Argument Hold? Professor Robert Hunter Wade (2002)

WP27 (PDF)

Globalisation and Social Exclusion in Cities: Framing the Debate with Lessons from Africa and Asia Dr Jo Beall (2002)

WP20 (PDF)

A New Apartheid? Urban spatiality, (fear of) crime, and segregation in Cape Town, South Africa Charlotte Spinks (2001)

WP99 (PDF)

The future of Development Management: Examining possibilities and potential Nilima Gulrajani

WP98 (PDF)

No Business like Slum Business? The Political Economy of the Continued Existence of Slums: A case study of Nairobi Florence Dafe

WP97 (PDF)

Power and Choice in International Trade: How power imbalances constrain the South's choices on free trade agreements, with a case study of Uruguay Lily Ryan-Collins

WP96 (PDF)

Health Worker Motivation and the Role of Performance Based Finance Systems Africa: A Qualitative Study on Health Worker Motivation and the Rwandan Performance Based finance initiative in District Hospitals Friederike Paul

WP95 (PDF)

Crisis in the Countryside: Farmer Suicides and The Political Economy of Agrarian Distress in India Bala Posani

WP94 (PDF)

From Rebels to Politicians. Explaining Rebel-to Party Transformations after Civil War: The case of Nepal  Dominik Klapdor

WP92 (PDF)

Guarding the State or Protecting the Economy? The Economic factors of Pakistan's Military coups  Amina Ibrahim

WP91 (PDF)

Man is the remedy of man: Constructions of Masculinity and Health-Related Behaviours among Young men in Dakar, Senegal  Sarah Helen Mathewson

WP90 (PDF)

Resolving the Theoretical Ambiguities of Social Exclusion with reference to Polarisation and Conflict Andrew Martin Fischer

WP89 (PDF)

Political Institutions, size of government and redistribution: an empirical investigation Martina Tonizzo

WP88 (PDF)

Managing Conspiracy Theories in Public Health: Ensuring that Voice does not lead to Exit Clara Rubincam

WP87 (PDF)

Explaining Pareto-Inefficient International Cooperation Using Argentina's Bilateral Investment Treaties Laura Collinson

WP86 (PDF)

Will 'devolution' improve the accountability and responsiveness of social service delivery in Balochistan, Pakistan? A Political economy perspective Mark Rolls

WP85 (PDF)

Opening the Gates to the Formal and Legal City: Formal access to land and housing by the urban poor - some lessons from Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam Brenda Murphy

WP84 (PDF)

Assessing the Prospects for Market-mediated land Reform: Evidence from South Africa Benjamin Magahy

WP83 (PDF)

Understanding the breakdown in North East India: Explorations in state-society relations M. Sajjad Hassan

WP82 (PDF)

A Tale of Two Upazilas: Local Governance and Social Development in Bangladesh Jean-Paul Faguet, Zulfiqar Ali

WP81 (PDF)

The Institutional Political Economy of State-led Economic Reform: Early Urban Land Development and the Construction of Oriental Plaza in Beijing, China Michael Hoevel

WP80 (PDF)

State of the Displaced: The Role of Returning Displaced Persons in Post-Conflict State Reconstruction Dominik Helling

WP79 (PDF)

An Empowerment Approach to Female Migration: A Case Study of China's Manufacturing Industry Tseun Kweun Yu

WP78 (PDF)

From Politicization of Grievances to Political Violence: An Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal Yurendra Basnett

WP77 (PDF)

Unveiling the Invisible Hand: Explaining Pharmacies' Participation in Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health in Vietnam Jordan W. Swanson

WP76 (PDF)

Policy coherence in international responses to state failure: the role of the United Kingdom in Sierra Leone Jonathan Pickering

WP75 (PDF)

Subsistence Capacity: The commodification of labour re-examined through the case of Tibet Andrew Fischer

WP74 (PDF)

The Real Option Approach to Privatise a Utility Where Information is Scarce: And management contract as a limit case Joel Ruet

WP72 (PDF)

Middle Class Activism and Poor People's Politics: An exploration of Civil Society in Chennai John Harriss

WP71 (PDF)

Basel II and Development Countries: Understanding the Implications Robert Bailey

WP70 (PDF)

The World Bank & Rule of Law Reforms Gordon Barron

WP68 (PDF)

Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing: A case study on Tamil Nadu, India Pritha Venkatachalam

WP67 (PDF)

Comparing Naughty BITS: Assessing the Developmental Impact of Variation in Bilateral Investment Treaties Peter Chowla

WP66 (PDF)

Poverty Alleviation or Political Networking? A combined Qul-Quant Analysis of the Implementation of Safety Nets in post-crisis Argentina Paula Giovagnoli

WP65 (PDF)

Corruption in World Bank Financed Projects: Why Bribery is a Tolerated Anathema Nathaniel Hobbs

WP64 (PDF)

Industrial Policy, Trade-Agreements and Decisions in Time: Two reasons why developing countries willingly limit their options And one imaginative  way of stopping it Arvinn Gadgil

WP62 (PDF)

China and the Search for Better-than-MFN Access to the US: The Global Politics of Regional Integration in the Americas Ken Shadlen

WP61 (PDF)

The Fiction of Development: Knowledge, Authority and Representation David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock

WP60 (PDF)

Decentralising Bolivia: Local Government in the Jungle Jean-Paul Faguet

WP59 (PDF)

Social Funds and Decentralization: Optimal Institutional Design Jean-Paul Faguet

WP58 (PDF)

Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure Reform in Central Uganda  Elliott D Green

WP57  (PDF)

What is an Ethnic Group? Political Economy, Constructivism and the Common Language Approach to Ethnicity  Elliott D Green

WP55 (PDF)

Democratisation by Technocratic Design: The Case of Social Funds in the Philippines Charmaine Ramos

WP54 (PDF)

Government and external risk mitigation: Why was Singapore less affected by the Asian financial crisis than its Southeast Asian neighbours? Maria Delfina Alcaide Garrido

WP52 (PDF)

Beyond 2015: Assessing the Economic Sustainability of the Millennium Development Goal to Halve Poverty Yaniv Stopnitzky

WP50 (PDF)

Disembedding the City: Crime, Insecurity, and Spatial Organisation in Managua, Nicaragua Dennis Rodgers

WP49 (PDF)

Human Rights and Development: The World bank's Need for a Consistent Approach Canan Gundez

WP48 (PDF)

The Good Governance Agenda: Who Wins and Who Loses. Some Empirical Evidence for 2001 Julie Aubut

WP47 (PDF)

Technology, Justice and Imagination: Intellectual property rule-making for the digital economy Dieter Zinnbauer

WP46 (PDF)

Soil and Struggle: Civil Conflict and State Formation in El Salvador and Costa Rica Ben Oppenheim

WP45 (PDF)

India: The Bitter Fruits of Grandiose Ambition Professor John Harriss

WP44 (PDF)

Is there a development case for United Nations-business partnerships? Dr Francesca Beausang

WP43 (PDF)

The Anti-Politics Machine Revisited: The Accommodation of Power and the Depoliticization of Development and Relief in Rural India Joseph Tordella   

WP42 (PDF)

Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO Kenneth Shadlen

WP41 (PDF)

From 'Antipolitics' to Anti-politics': What Became of East European 'Civil Society'? Tessa Brannan

WP40 (PDF)

The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software Kenneth Shadlen, Andrew Schrank, Marcus Kurtz

WP39 (PDF)

A Model of Central vs Decentralized Government: Self-Interest and Mis-Allocation in Bolivia Jean-Paul Faguet

WP38 (PDF)

The Determinants of Central vs Local Government Investment: Institutions and Politics Matter Jean-Paul Faguet

WP37 (PDF)

Trauma and Conflict Edward Balke

WP36 (PDF)

"We live in a State of Siege": Violence, Crime, and Gangs in Post-Conflict Urban Nicaragua Dr Dennis Rodgers

WP35 (PDF)

On Trust, and Trust in Indian Business: Ethnographic Explorations Professor John Harriss

WP34 (PDF)

Institutions, Politics and Culture: A Case or 'Old' Institutionalism in the Study of Historical Change Professor John Harriss

WP33 (PDF)

Globalization, Poverty and Income Distribution: Does the Liberal Argument Hold? Professor Robert Hunter Wade

WP32 (PDF)

Consolidation Democracy: Political Society and NGOs in Thailand Elinor Wakefield

WP31 (PDF)

Rights, Representation and the Poor: Comparisons across Latin America and India Peter P Houtzager, Ruth Berins Colliers, John Harriss, Adrian G Lavalle

WP30 (PDF)

Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in South Africa Dr Elizabeth Francis

WP29 (PDF)

Telecommunications for All: Does Liberalization Help? Shani Ospina

WP28 (PDF)

Discourses of disasters, discourses of relief and DFID's humanitarian aid policy Alexandra Galperin

WP27 (PDF)

Globalisation and Social Exclusion in Cities: Framing the Debate with Lessons from Africa and Asia Dr Jo Beall

WP26 (PDF)

Wars and Votes: Power, conflict and Institutions Martin Hermann

WP25 (PDF)

Gestalt Shift: from "Miracle" to "Cronyism" in the Asian Crisis Professor Robert Wade

WP24 (PDF)

Out of the box: Rethinking the governance of International Financial Markets Professor Robert Wade

WP23 (PDF)

The case for cross-disciplinary approaches in International Development Professor John Harriss

WP22 (PDF)

The American Empire and its Limits Professor Robert Wade

WP21 (PDF)

The Livelihood Conflicts Approach on Trial in Rwanda: Towards a Political Critique Justin Macdermott

WP20 (PDF)

A New Apartheid? Urban spatiality, (fear of) crime, and segregation in Cape Town, South Africa Charlotte Spinks

WP19 (PDF)

The hare and Tortoise: Does Slow and Steady Financial liberalization Win the Race? A Tunisian Case Study Philippe Hall

WP18 (PDF)

Corruption: Deconstructing the World bank Discourse Tara Polzer

WP17 (PDF)

The Great Tradition Globalizes: reflections on two studies of  'the industrial leaders' of Madras Professor John Harriss

WP16 (PDF)

Social Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society in Rural Areas Professor John Harriss

WP15 (PDF)

Populism, Tamil Style. Is it really a success? Professsor John Harriss

WP14 (PDF)

A Muddled Democracy - "People Power" Philippine Style Dr James Putzel

WP13 (PDF)

A New-Old Approach To Industrial-cum-Immigration Policy Professor Robert Wade

WP12 (PDF)

From Neo-Classical Economics to New Institutional Economics and beyond - Prospects for an interdisciplinary research programme? Dieter Zimbauer

WP11 (PDF)

Coping with environmental change: the experience of Somali refugee women in a West London housing estate Mildred R Atubo and Simon P J Batterbury

WP10 (PDF)

Is Globalization making world income distribution more equal? Robert Hunter Wade

WP09 (PDF)

Radio Broadcasting and Rural Development in Africa: Media messages and women food producers in Malawi Rita Crowley Turner

WP08 (PDF)

Dropping the Debt for the New Millennium: Is it such a good idea? Tim Allen and Diana Weinhold

WP07 (PDF)

Humanitarianism and Developmental Assistance: Programming and funding issues for slow onset emergencies Haleem Lone

WP06 (PDF)

Regional distribution Dynamics of GDPs across Indian States, 1965-1988 Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

WP05 (PDF)

Children in Extreme Situations: proceedings from the 1998 Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture. Edited by Lisa Carlson, Megan Mackeson-Sandbach and Tim Allen

WP04 (PDF)

Land Reforms in Asia: Lessons from the past for the 21st century Dr James Putzel

WP03 (PDF)

Governing The Market: A decade later Professor Robert Wade

WP02 (PDF)

Development Theory, Universal Values and Competing Paradigms: Capitalist trajectories and social conflict Dr E A Brett

WP01 (PDF)

How Much Difference Does Politics Make? regime differences across Indian states and rural poverty reduction John Harriss