Development Education (DE) finds a significant part of its public face in England through the activities of local NGOs|Development Education Centres (DECs). DECs have emerged over a period of about 30 years as civil society institutions with little central government support. The creation of a...

Amartya Sen has sought to maintain a dialogue with mainstream economics on inequality-a continuing theme in his writing. This paper suggests this dialogue has involved costs. The first and second sections outline where Sen has located himself in the epistemological range that defines acceptable...

This paper attempts to demonstrate that Keynes's practical writings on the crisis in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry in the 1920s were consistent with the 1930s theoretical conceptualisation of user costs in the General Theory. It is suggested that the key (common) link between these...

Development studies faces a major methodological challenge in combining large scale surveys of problematic accuracy in conceptualisation and measurement with local studies whose generalisation is questionable. This paper attempts to combine the overviews from highly aggregated quantitative...

A synopsis is presented based on the preliminary results of two households economic activity/consumption surveys - the Nepal Living Standard Measurement Survey and Livelihood Trajectory Survey – undertaken in 1996/97. The LSMS covered 3,345 households randomly chosen in two tier sampling frame...

We analyze rural household livelihood and children’s educational investment decisions in a post-conflict setting located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. The study represents a contribution to the microeconomic analysis of conflict. Another innovation of the paper lies in...

The term 'substantive subsidiarity' characterizes a radical position in the major debate in the European Union (EU) on how to structure territorially-based power in a closely interlinked economy. A similar debate took place in the period between the 1950s and the early 1990s over the need for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of a procedural deliberative alternative to an atomistic conception of individuals and an economic logic of markets or a priori universal lists, as ethical foundation for evaluating socio‐economic change....