The Working Paper series is made up of contributions from academic staff in International Development (formerly DESTIN), PhD students, and visiting fellows.
To be included within the series, please send manuscripts to Dipa Patel in the International Development Office (d.patel20@lse.ac.uk), along with an abstract of 150-200 words and up to six keywords. The ID Working Paper editorial team will endeavour to process your submission within three weeks.
(MSc prizewinning dissertations, which were previously published as part of the Working Paper series, now have a dedicated page.)
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Recent
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WP178 (2016) Land Politics under Kenya's New Constitution: Counties, Devolution, and the National Land
Dr Catherine Boone, Alex Dyzenhaus, Seth Ouma, James Kabugu Owino, Catherine Gateri, Achiba Gargule, Jackie Klopp, and Ambreena Manji
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WP177 (2016) What causes inequity in access to publicly funded health services that are supposedly free at the point of use? A case of user fee exemptions for older people in Senegal Dr Philipa Mladovsky and Maymouna Bâ
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WP176 (2016) Explaining Aid (In)Effectiveness: The Political Economy of Aid Relationships Prof. E.A.Brett
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WP175 (2016) The TPP and the digital trade agenda: digital industrial policy and Silicon Valley’s influence on new trade agreement Dr Shamel Azmeh and Dr Christopher Foster
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WP174 (2015) Land and Property Institutions: endogenous origins and equilibrium effects
Prof. Catherine Boone
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WP173 (2015) Decentralizing for a Deeper Democracy and a More Supple State
Prof. Jean-Paul Faguet, Dr Ashley M. Fox, and Dr Caroline Pöschl
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WP172 (2015) Captured Countryside? Stability and Change in Sub-national Support for African Incumbent Parties
Prof. Catherine Boone and Dr Michael Wahman
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WP171 (2015) Building Security, Justice and Public Authority in Weak States: contested transitions, unstable social orders and institutional hybridity
Prof. E.A. Brett
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WP170 (2015) Instrumental Incoherence in Institutional Reform: Decentralization and a Structural Solution to Political Exigency
Prof. Jean-Paul Faguet and Dr Mahvish Shami
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WP169 (2015) Transformation from Below in Bolivia and Bangladesh: Decentralization, Local Governance, and Systemic Change
Prof. Jean-Paul Faguet
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WP168 (2015) The Democratic Contribution of Participatory Budgeting
Prof. Yves Cabannes (UCL) and Dr Barbara Lipietz (UCL)
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WP159 (2014) Reframing African Political Economy: Clientelism, Rents and Accumulation as Drivers of Capitalist Transformation
Dr Hazel Gray and Dr Lindsay Whitfield
Archive (2000-2013)
Listed alphabetically.
WP08 (2000) Dropping the Debt for the New Millennium: Is it such a good idea?
Allen, Tim and Diana Weinhold
WP11 (2001) Coping with environmental change: the experience of Somali refugee women in a West London housing estate
Atubo, Mildred R., and Simon P. J. Batterbury
WP27 (2002) Globalisation and Social Exclusion in Cities: Framing the Debate with Lessons from Africa and Asia
Beall, Jo
WP44 (2003) Is there a development case for United Nations-business partnerships?
Beausang, Franscesca
WP06 (2000) Regional distribution Dynamics of GDPs across Indian States, 1965-1988
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra
WP02 (2000) Development Theory, Universal Values and Competing Paradigms: Capitalist trajectories and social conflict
Brett, E.A.
WP05 (2000) Children in Extreme Situations: Proceedings from the 1998 Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture.
Carlson, Lisa, Megan Mackeson-Sandbach, and Tim Allen (eds.)
WP130 (2012) Social Welfare, Health and Pharmaceutical Industry: preliminary notes for a comparative analysis between England, Brazil, and Argentina.
Delgado, Ignacio Godinho
WP82 (2007) A Tale of Two Upazilas: Local Governance and Social Development in Bangladesh
Faguet, Jean-Paul, Zulfiqar Ali
WP60 (2005) Decentralising Bolivia: Local Government in the Jungle
Faguet, Jean-Paul
WP59 (2005) Social Funds and Decentralization: Optimal Institutional Design
Faguet, Jean-Paul
WP39 (2002) A Model of Central vs Decentralized Government: Self-Interest and Mis-Allocation in Bolivia
Faguet, Jean-Paul
WP38 (2002) The Determinants of Central vs Local Government Investment: Institutions and Politics Matter
Faguet, Jean-Paul
WP90 (2008) Resolving the Theoretical Ambiguities of Social Exclusion with reference to Polarisation and Conflict
Fischer, Andrew
WP75 (2006) Subsistence Capacity: The commodification of labour re-examined through the case of Tibet
Fischer, Andrew
WP146 (PDF) The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Sean
WP30 (2003) Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in South Africa
Francis, Elizabeth
WP122 (2011) Explaining African Ethnic Diversity
Green, Elliott D
WP111 (2010) The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Africa
Green, Elliott D
WP58 (2005) Ethnicity and the Politics of Land Tenure Reform in Central Uganda
Green, Elliott D
WP57 (2005) What is an Ethnic Group? Political Economy, Constructivism and the Common Language Approach to Ethnicity
Green, Elliott D
WP99 (2009) The future of Development Management: Examining possibilities and potential
Gulrajani, Nilima
WP72 (2005) Middle Class Activism and Poor People's Politics: An exploration of Civil Society in Chennai
Harriss, John
WP45 (2003) India: The Bitter Fruits of Grandiose Ambition
Harriss, John
WP35 (2002) On Trust, and Trust in Indian Business: Ethnographic Explorations
Harriss, John
WP34 (2002) Institutions, Politics and Culture: A Case or 'Old' Institutionalism in the Study of Historical Change
Harriss, John
WP23 (2002) The case for cross-disciplinary approaches in International Development
Harriss, John
WP17 (2001) The Great Tradition Globalizes: reflections on two studies of 'the industrial leaders' of Madras
Harriss, John
WP16 (2001) Social Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society in Rural Areas
Harriss, John
WP15 (2001) Populism, Tamil Style. Is it really a success?
Harriss, John
WP01 (2001) How Much Difference Does Politics Make? Regime differences across Indian states and rural poverty reduction
Harriss, John
WP83 (2006) Understanding the breakdown in North East India: Explorations in state-society relations.
Hassan, M. Sajjad
WP31 (2002) Rights, Representation and the Poor: Comparisons across Latin America and India
Houtzager, Peter P., Ruth Berins Colliers, John Harriss, Adrian G Lavalle
WP61 (2005) The Fiction of Development: Knowledge, Authority and Representation
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock
WP07 (2000) Humanitarianism and Developmental Assistance: Programming and funding issues for slow onset emergencies
Lone, Haleem
WP147, WP148, WP149, WP150 (2009-2012) Free Trade Agreements and Production Networks in Southeast Asia
Postigo, Antonio
WP14 (2001) A Muddled Democracy - "People Power" Philippine Style
Putzel, James
WP04 (2000) Land Reforms in Asia: Lessons from the past for the 21st century
Putzel, James
WP50 (2004) Disembedding the City: Crime, Insecurity, and Spatial Organisation in Managua, Nicaragua
Rodgers, Dennis
WP36 (2002) "We live in a State of Siege": Violence, Crime, and Gangs in Post-Conflict Urban Nicaragua
Rodgers, Dennis
WP74 (2006) The Real Option Approach to Privatise a Utility Where Information is Scarce: And management contract as a limit case.
Ruet, Joel
WP62 (2005) China and the Search for Better-than-MFN Access to the US: The Global Politics of Regional Integration in the Americas. [Now published: DOI]
Shadlen, Kenneth
WP42 (2003) Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO [Now published: DOI]
Shadlen, Kenneth
WP40 (2003) The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software [Now published: DOI]
Shadlen, Kenneth, Andrew Schrank, Marcus Kurtz
WP118, WP119, WP120, WP121 (2010) Pro-Poor Governance Reform Initiatives in Madhya Pradesh, India, 1993-2010
Srivastava, Manoj
WP09 (2000) Radio Broadcasting and Rural Development in Africa: Media messages and women food producers in Malawi
Turner, Rita Crowley
WP33 (2002) Globalization, Poverty and Income Distribution: Does the Liberal Argument Hold?
Wade, Robert H.
WP25 (2002) Gestalt Shift: from "Miracle" to "Cronyism" in the Asian Crisis
Wade, Robert H.
WP24 (2002) Out of the box: Rethinking the governance of International Financial Markets
Wade, Robert H.
WP22 (2002) The American Empire and its Limits
Wade, Robert H.
WP13 (2001) A New-Old Approach To Industrial-cum-Immigration Policy
Wade, Robert H.
WP10 (2001) Is Globalization making world income distribution more equal? Professor Wade, Robert H.
WP03 (2000) Governing The Market: A decade later
Wade, Robert H.
WP47 (2004) Technology, Justice and Imagination: Intellectual property rule-making for the digital economy
Zinnbauer, Dieter
WP12 (2001) From Neo-Classical Economics to New Institutional Economics and beyond - Prospects for an interdisciplinary research programme?
Zinnbauer, Dieter