Since the late 1990s, gender issues have been a critical part of community development in Laos. However, there has often confusion, based on misinformation, in the application of gender and women's perspectives. This article analyzes three projects in the Bokeo province of Laos aimed at...

"This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment. The analysis uses a unique data set of about 2,100 households collected before the project...

Development is a difficult endeavor in any environment, much more so in places such as Myanmar with its "perfect storm" of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and political repression and human rights violations with concomitant conflicts within development organizations over norms and...