Using the analytical framework of social structures of accumulation, the economic politics of local urban civil-social organisations and their impact on capital, class and the business economy is examined. Although such organisations are structured through many dimensions, notably occupation,...

Microfinance (MF) has grown over the last two decades into an important sub-field of development studies. This special issue of <italic>Oxford Development Studies</italic> explores the contributions of MF, drawing particularly on research conducted in India. After a brief overview of the emergence of MF as a...

Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades. Edited by Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1988. Pp.xxviii + 640. £70. ISBN 0198288328 Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility Decline in the Developing World. Edited by Caroline H. Bledsoe, John B....