This paper examines how various poverty assessment modalities serve to strengthen the governance capacities necessary to target the poor. Large-scale surveys and qualitative, ‘bottom-up’ assessments both have shortcomings in this regard. A ‘multi-level’ synthesis would...

In contrast to the popular debate on managing international aid to achieve good governance in developing countries, this paper focuses on of ensuring good governance of aid processes (or good aid governance) between partners in development, to achieve national and local development objectives....

Humanitarian Economics marks the start of a long-term interdisciplinary research agenda on the complex aid-conflict-disaster nexus. This well-researched and thoroughly referenced book is aimed at professionals working in humanitarian and development agencies, NGOs, private sector and...

This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of the two societies can be reduced to different...

*Bank Rate kept unchanged *Cash Reserve Ratio to be increased by 50 basis points to 7.0 per cent with effect from the fortnight beginning August 4, 2007 *GDP growth projection for 2007-08 retained at around 8.5 per cent, barring domestic or external shocks

The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.

Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...