Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a … aspects have only been inadequately addressed in development theory. This paperargues that social-cognitive vicarious learning …, values), behaviour and environment. Our analysis is basedon a survey of the Indian trans-Himalayan regions. The development …

distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance. Such measures can be … useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling … a framework of ten questions to help users and producers of governance indexes to evaluate them and consider key …

recently been called the 'capability trap' in development - which results in many interventions producing new forms that are …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision …, and governance quality using cross-country panel data for 161 countries for the period 1900-2017. We distinguish between …

-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a … theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime governance affect trajectories of state-building in the aftermath of civil … governance: how armed groups build institutional capacity in wartime and the characteristics of wartime civilian rule by armed …

'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …