This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal articles from 2017-22, it uses Kuhnian...

"The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since its widespread adoption within international development in the 1990s, livelihoods perspectives, frameworks and methods have...

This paper argues that the World Bank's adoption of the principle of sustainable development is an example of the persistence of the law and development approach. Indeed, the World Bank's interpretation of the principle translates into its projects; through soft law and loan conditionality, it...

Abstract: This empirical study follows an applied research question. It sets out to illuminate political, economic and ideational influences on the agricultural sector of Ghana as well as the role of aid within it. The inter-disciplinary approach combines theories of development studies,...