Social capital has not merely risen as a social scientific term in the scholarly literature; it has
become routinized into everyday conversation and policy discourse across an …

Background For the last two decades, schistosomiasis control efforts have focussed on
preventive treatment. The disease, however, still affects over 200 million people worldwide …

Identifying the specific contribution of the use of ICTs to specific development goals has
proven to be extremely difficult. This paper argues that instead of trying to make ICTs fit with …

In this paper we unpack how geographers have studied institutions, focusing specifically on
institutional ethnography, often called 'IE'. Sociologist Dorothy Smith is widely credited with …

A change is under way in the relationship between anthropology and development, marking
the end of a long period of mutual marginalization. This book brings together anthropologists …

How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding
accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process …

The authors trace out the development of capitalism and US imperialism in Latin America in
the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of …

Several approaches to the study of poverty are discussed, to learn from their strengths as
well as their weaknesses. For this purpose the concepts of marginality, social exclusion, new …

International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are
over $100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the …

Some concepts slide gently into the consciousness of social researchers, or gradually
emerge over decades as the natural successors of earlier thinking. Usually there will be a …