Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted
programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer …

I have chosen to write this book in a way that is informed by critical theories of development
and feminist scholarship, but that places lived experience front and center. My professional …

Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and
interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory …

Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia–Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam–have transformed themselves …

Executive summary That 'context'and 'politics' matter has become increasingly axiomatic
within development theory and practice over the past decade. These new mantras are …

3 Land distribution in four fieldwork villages 66 4 Caste distribution in four fieldwork villages
68 5 Land distribution by caste 68 6 Primary bases of accumulation (among surplus …

Throughout the global South, conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) are used to
promote socially inclusive development. CCTs are widely evaluated for their capacity to …

Discourses about Internet and rights generate ideological, economic, and policy debates
that bring to prominence the question of citizenship in today's digital age. But what does …

This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic Left in the
Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the Left is shifting south from its …

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused
anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little …