Working papers
GPRG Working Paper Series
Title |
Authors |
Paper (pdf file) |
| Adaptation, Poverty and Well-Being: Some Issues and Observations with Special Reference to the Capability Approach and Development Studies | David A. Clark | GPRG-WPS-081 |
| Structure, Agency, and Strategy Among Tenants in India | Wendy Olsen | GPRG-WPS-080 |
| Informal Agricultural Work, Habitus and Practices in an Indian Context | Wendy Olsen and Daniel F. Neff | GPRG-WPS-079 |
| A Gendered Analysis of ‘Time Poverty’ – The Importance of Infrastructure | David Lawson | GPRG-WPS-078 |
| Methodological Issues Associated with Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from Uganda | David Lawson, David Hulme with James Muwonge | GPRG-WPS-077 |
| Collective action and vulnerability: Burial societies in rural Ethiopia | Stefan Dercon, John Hoddinott, Pramila Krishnan and Tassew Woldehannna | GPRG-WPS-076 |
| Moving On, Staying Behind, Getting Lost: Lessons on poverty mobility from longitudinal data | Stefan Dercon and Joseph S. Shapiro | GPRG-WPS-075 |
| Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa | Stefan Dercon | GPRG-WPS-074 |
| Insurance for the Poor? | Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo | GPRG-WPS-073 |
| Rural Poverty: Old Challenges in New Contexts | Stefan Dercon | GPRG-WPS-072 |
| The progress of school education in India | Geeta Gandhi Kingdon | GPRG-WPS-071 |
| Spontaneous Markets, Networks, and Social Capital: Lessons from Africa | Marcel Fafchamps | GPRG-WPS-070 |
| Human Capital, Exports, and Wages | Marcel Fafchamps | GPRG-WPS-069 |
| Agricultural Markets in Benin and Malawi | Marcel Fafchamps and Eleni Gabre-Madhin | GPRG-WPS-068 |
| Risk Sharing and Network Formation | Marcel Fafchamps and Flore Gubert | GPRG-WPS-067 |
| The Quality of School Provision in Pakistan: Are Girls Worse Off? | Monazza Aslam | GPRG-WPS-066 |
| Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in West Africa | Pedro C. Vicente | GPRG-WPS-065 |
| Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan | Monazza Aslam | GPRG-WPS-064 |
| Integrating Quantitative And Qualitative Research For Country Case Studies Of Development | David Hulme | GPRG-WPS-063 |
| Contrasting visions for aid and governance in the 21st century: the White House Millennium Challenge Account and DFID’s Drivers of Change | Vasudha Chhotray and David Hulme | GPRG-WPS-062 |
| Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision- making: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages after Land Reform | Stefan Kohler | GPRG-WPS-061 |
| African poverty through the lens of labor economics: Earnings & mobility in three countries | Justin Sandefur, Pieter Serneels and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-060 |
| Teacher characteristics and student performance in India: A pupil fixed effects approach | Geeta Gandhi Kingdon | GPRG-WPS-059 |
| Spontaneous Markets, Networks, and Social Capital: Lessons from Africa | Marcel Fafchamps | GPRG-WPS-058 |
| Quality Control in Non-Staple Food Markets: Evidence from India | Marcel Fafchamps, Ruth Hill and Bart Minten | GPRG-WPS-057 |
| Subjective Welfare, Isolation, and Relative Consumption | Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi | GPRG-WPS-056 |
| Is International Funding Crowding Out Charitable Contributions in African NGOs? | Marcel Fafchamps and Trudy Owens | GPRG-WPS-055 |
| Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa | Pedro C. Vicente | GPRG-WPS-054 |
| Pluralist Methodology for Development Economics: The Example of Moral Economy of Indian Labour Markets | Wendy Olsen | GPRG-WPS-053 |
| Do returns to education matter to schooling participation? | Geeta Kingdon and Nicolas Theopold | GPRG-WPS-052 |
| To train or to educate? Evidence from Tanzania | Godius Kahyarara and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-051 |
| Gender, Education and Occupational Outcomes: Kenya’s Informal Sector in the 1990s | Rosemary Atieno and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-050 |
| The role of risk in shaping production decisions: an empirical analysis | Ruth Vargas Hill | GPRG-WPS-049 |
| Coffee Price Risk in the Market: Exporter, Trader and Producer. Data from Uganda | Ruth Vargas Hill | GPRG-WPS-048 |
| Escaping Violence, Seeking Freedom: Why Children In Bangladesh Migrate To The Street | Alessandro Conticini and David Hulme | GPRG-WPS-047 |
| Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, 1950-1980 | Alexander Moradi | GPRG-WPS-046 |
| Remittances, poverty reduction and the informalisation of household wellbeing in Zimbabwe | Sarah Bracking and Lloyd Sachikonye | GPRG-WPS-045 |
| Intrahousehold Welfare | Marcel Fafchamps, Bereket Kebede, and Agnes R. Quisumbing | GPRG-WPS-044 |
| Reclaiming development? NGOs and the challenge of alternatives | Diana Mitlin, Sam Hickey and Anthony Bebbington | GPRG-WPS-043 |
| A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India | Wendy Olsen and Smita Mehta | GPRG-WPS-042 |
| Why has microfinance been a policy success in Bangladesh (and beyond)? | David Hulme and Karen Moore | GPRG-WPS-041 |
| Culture and Corruption | Abigail Barr and Danila Serra | GPRG-WPS-040 |
| Household Formation and Marriage Markets | Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes R. Quisumbing | GPRG-WPS-039 |
| Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets | Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Vargas Hill | GPRG-WPS-038 |
| The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks | Marcel Fafchamps and Flore Gubert | GPRG-WPS-037 |
| Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa | Neil Rankin, Måns Söderbom and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-036 |
| Enhancing The Development Capabilities Of Civil Society Organisations, With Particular Reference To Christian Faith- Based Organisations (CFBOS) | Deryke Belshaw | GPRG-WPS-035 |
| Strategy Choice and Cognitive Ability in Field Experiments | Abigail Barr, Magnus Lindelow, Jose Garcia-Montalvo and Pieter Serneels |
GPRG-WPS-034 |
| Intrinsic motivations on the development frontline: Do they exist? Do they endure? |
Abigail Barr, Magnus Lindelow, Jose Garcia-Montalvo and Pieter Serneels |
GPRG-WPS-033 |
| The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances | David A. Clark | GPRG-WPS-032 |
| Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared | Wendy Olsen | GPRG-WPS-031 |
| Labor Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s | Geeta Kingdon, Justin Sandefur and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-030 |
| Do Wages reflect Productivity? | Pieter Serneels | GPRG-WPS-029 |
| Have NGOs ‘Made a Difference?’ From Manchester to Birmingham with an Elephant in the Room |
Michael Edwards | GPRG-WPS-028 |
| Rights-Based Development: The challenge of Change and Power | Jennifer Chapman, Valerie Miller, Adriano Campolina Soares and John Samuel |
GPRG-WPS-027 |
| Core Poverty, Basic Capabilities and Vagueness: An Application to the South African Context | David A. Clark and Mozaffar Qizilbash | GPRG-WPS-026 |
| Gender and Household Education Expenditure in Pakistan | Monazza Aslam and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon |
GPRG-WPS-025 |
| Political Entrepreneurs or Development Agents: An NGO’s tale of resistance and acquiescence in Madhya Pradesh, India | Vasudha Chhotray | GPRG-WPS-024 |
| Knowledge generation for poverty reduction within donor organizations | Anthony Bebbington and Armando Barrientos | GPRG-WPS-023 |
| Re-interpreting the rights-based approach – a grassroots perspective on rights and development | Diana Mitlin and Sheela Patel | GPRG-WPS-022 |
| Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia | Daniel Ayalew, Stefan Dercon and Madhur Gautam | GPRG-WPS-021 |
| Towards A Unified Framework for Understanding the Depth, Breadth and Duration of Poverty | David Clark and David Hulme | GPRG-WPS-020 |
| The Rights of the Rich versus the Rights of the Poor | John Gledhill | GPRG-WPS-019 |
| For Public Service or Money: Understanding Geographical Imbalances in the Health Workforce |
Pieter Serneels, Magnus Lindelow, Jose Garcia-Montalvo and Abigail Barr | GPRG-WPS-018 |
| The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing | Måns Söderbom, Francis Teal, Anthony Wambugu And Godius Kahyarara | GPRG-WPS-017 |
| Democracy and Resource Rents | Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler | GPRG-WPS-016 |
| How flexible are wages in response to local unemployment in South Africa? | Geeta Kingdon and John Knight | GPRG-WPS-015 |
| Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? Some evidence from India | Geeta Kingdon and Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-014 |
| Local Identities of Poverty: poverty narratives in decentralized government and the role of poverty research in Uganda | Phil Woodhouse | GPRG-WPS-013 |
| Empirical determinants of corruption: A sensitivity analysis | Danila Serra | GPRG-WPS-012 |
| Narratives, stories and tales: understanding poverty dynamics through life histories | Uma Kothari and David Hulme | GPRG-WPS-011 |
| Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies | Geeta Kingdon and John Knight | GPRG-WPS-010 |
| Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Some Anthropological Perspectives on Poverty in Development | Maia Green | GPRG-WPS-009 |
| Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-Mindedness in Development Studies | Wendy Olsen | GPRG-WPS-008 |
| Development and Social Capital | Marcel Fafchamps | GPRG-WPS-007 |
| Capturing the political? The role of political analysis in the multi-disciplining of development studies | Sam Hickey | GPRG-WPS-006 |
| Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-being | Jocelyn DeJong | GPRG-WPS-005 |
| Poverty Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis | David Lawson , Andy McKay and John Okidi | GPRG-WPS-004 |
| Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? | Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and John Knight | GPRG-WPS-003 |
| Consumption, Welfare and Well-Being in Ghana in the 1990s | Francis Teal | GPRG-WPS-002 |
| The case for cross-disciplinary social science research on poverty, inequality and well-being | David Hulme and John Toye | GPRG-WPS-001 |
GPRG-related working papers
Title |
Authors |
Link to paper |
| Snakes, ladders and traps: changing lives and livelihoods in rural Bangladesh (1994-2001) |
Naila Kabeer | CPRC working paper 50 |
| Seeking solutions to Vulnerability in Old Age: Preferences, constraints, and alternatives for coverage under Peru’s pension system | Abigail Barr and Truman G. Packard. | CSAE WPS/2005-05 |
| Insecurity and welfare | Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten. | CSAE WPS/2004-31 |
| Selling at the farm-gate or travelling to market | Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Vargas Hill. | CSAE WPS/2004-30 |
| A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda | Abigail Barr and Marcel Fafchamps CSAE | WPS/2004-23 |
| Rational and biased trust | Abigail Barr | CSAE WPS/2004-22 |
| Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society | Geeta G. Kingdon and John Knight | CSAE WPS/2004-21 |
| Wages and reciprocity in the workplace | Abigail Barr and Pieter Serneels | CSAE WPS/2004-18 |
| Production changes in Ghana cocoa farming households under market reforms | Francis Teal and Marcella Vigneri | CSAE WPS/2004-16 |
| Military expenditure in postconflict societies | Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler | CSAE WPS/2004-13 |
| The resources and governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda | Abigail Barr, Marcel Fafchamps and Trudy Owens | CSAE WPS/2004-06 |
| The Influence of Ill Health on Chronic and Transient Poverty: Evidence from Uganda | David Lawson | CPRC Working paper 41 |
| The Politics of Staying Poor in Uganda | Sam Hickey | CPRC Working paper 37 |
| The Economic and Social Processes Influencing the Level and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas | Diana Mitlin | CPRC Working paper 29 |
| The Political Economy of Chronic Poverty | Sarah Bracking | CPRC Working paper 23 |
| Thinking 'Small' and the Understanding of Poverty: Maymana and Mofizul's Story | David Hulme | CPRC Working paper 22 |