This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries.
NBER Working Paper 17554. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau ... Kingdon, G. G., A. Little, M. Aslam, S. Rawal, T. Moe, H. Patrinos, T. Béteille, R. Banerji, B. Parton, and S. K. Sharma. 2014. ... ODI Development Progress Working Paper 5.
The activists consider their action a legitimate reclaiming of national forums that have been turned into exclusive spaces for the political elite. Alongside this unsettling of official functions, activists also maintained a ...
In chapters examining the environmental, political and socioeconomic crisis of the 1970s, the book shows how the lessons of the famine led to a robustly pro-poor growth and social policy agenda, empowering the Bangladeshi state and its non ...
In chapters examining the environmental, political and socioeconomic crisis of the 1970s, the book shows how the lessons of the famine led to a robustly pro-poor growth and social policy agenda, empowering the Bangladeshi state and its non ...
This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes.
This book brings together qualitative studies conducted during 2008-11 in communities in sixteen countries, with eight case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks and what coping mechanisms ...
Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results