Long-term relationships are generally believed to incentivize investments better than short-term relationships. We show that while this is true for quality investments, it is not always true for responsibility investments. In particular, when a reliable and an unreliable supplier compete for the...

In the backdrop of the understanding given by Sanyal's work relating the accumulation process to the subsistence economy and these in turn to legitimization and hegemony of accumulation through regulation of primitive accumulation and governmentality, we present concrete experiences from a site...

Students in developing countries are often taught for only a fraction of the intended number of school hours. Time is often wasted due to informal school closures, teacher absenteeism, delays, early departures, and poor use of classroom time. Since the 1970s, attempts have been made in several...

International development law is the branch of international law that deals with the rights and duties of states and other actors in the development process. Its original content was premised on a particular generally accepted understanding of development. Under the pressure of the problems of...