The extent to which financial markets are rational, efficient processors of information has perhaps never been as much in doubt as it is now during the ongoing global financial crisis. This paper engages with this debate directly by investigating the effects of one particular type of...

While policy engagement is increasingly considered a key dimension of development cooperation, there have been few attempts by development agencies to systematically monitor and evaluate the impact of their work in this area. In recent years, the International Fund for Agricultural Development...

This paper presents a framework to analyse the political economy of rural youth policy and institutions’ opportunity space, with a quadrant that measures the extent to which rural youth are a priority in policies and institutions versus the extent to which the government has the capacity to...