Mexico still has more than 24 million of its inhabitants living in poverty, the bulk of these living in rural areas. Since 1982 Mexico has carried out a model programme of structural adjustment and economic liberalization. From 1988 onwards the previously protective and interventionist farm...

Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads...

This article is concerned with the decade and a half spent by the development economist Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics between 1933 and 1948. It discusses the intellectual traditions of the institution that Lewis joined and the various influences on the young economist. His...

Some recent empirical research suggests that the implementation of policy reforms is largely dependent on domestic political economy factors. This finding is taken to suggest that aid and adjustment lending should only be provided to those countries that, on the basis of certain characteristics,...

The dramatic reduction in poverty in Uganda and Ghana in the 1990s was derived largely from the liberalisation of the export price received by a labour-intensive peasant export sector. Other African economies ought to be able to derive inspiration from this manifestation of the invisible hand,...

Essential reading for all those interested in development, poverty-reduction, social welfare and finance. Volume one offers a detailed assessment of theory and policy whilst volume two presents case studies from seven developing countries

1. Introduction -- 2. The way forward : how do 'inclusive' alliances happen? -- 3. The fiscal politics of mineral development in Ghana -- 4. Zambia : democratisation without a 'social dividend'? -- 5. Bolivia : a 'hybrid' political economy? -- 6. The politics of inclusive fiscal policy -- 7....