The literature on remittances has in the past concentrated on the microeconomic aspects of the remittance process: the determinants of remittances, impact of remittances on household allocation decisions, and their impact on poverty. Only recently has there been more attention on the...

Participation in development claims to have a transformative potential. Does it really live up to such claim? To answer such question we must look at how change occurs in spaces where citizen participation is encouraged. This paper studies the case of participatory budgeting at local level in...

Denis Goulet (1931-2006) was a pioneer of human development theory and the main founder of work on “development ethics†as a self-conscious field that, by his definition, treats the ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning, and practice. The paper looks at...