appropriate role of information and communication technologies in development and the priority that should be given to enabling …

their interventions. Since the convening of the influential Sarkozy Commission in 2009, development researchers have been … flurry of research in the development field so as to carry out more nuanced and locally relevant evaluations of the effects …

camps grow and develop over time, they evolve their own unique form of urbanism that is still un-urban. This article … challenges this idea of the camp as space of pure biopolitics and explores the politics of space in the refugee camp using urban … draws connections between refugee camps and other spaces of urban marginality, and suggests that refugee spaces can be seen …

– particularly in spaces for user-generated content (UGC) – and in suggesting how policy might be written to account for user rights …

lending. Optimism leads to the opposite conclusion, at least if it is legitimate to use fiscal policy to counteract systematic …

higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators …

. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing … empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect the stringency of environmental policy …. Moreover, political competition tends to raise policy stringency, in particular where citizens’ participation in the democratic …

, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …