Volumes 41 - 46: Recent submissions

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    • Distributing the Wealth from the Earth 

      Arellano Yanguas, Javier; Mejía Acosta, Andrés (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, September )
      This article explains different criteria and mechanisms for distributing extractive industries (EI) revenues between central and local governments across countries and territories. It reveals that institutional or systemic ...

    • Connecting Citizens to the State: Informal Local Governance Institutions in the Western Balkans 

      Khan Mohmand, Shandana; Mihajlovic, Snezana Misic (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, September )
      There is a growing scholarly and policy awareness of the fact that informal institutions that lie wholly or partly outside formal state structures and that take on various governance?related functions have tremendous ...

    • Decentralisation and Accountability in War?to?Peace Transitions: The Case of Kosovo 

      Schultze?Kraft, Markus; Morina, Engjellushe (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, September )
      In spite of the scant evidence of a positive correlation between decentralisation and strengthened local development and governance, decentralisation has been promoted as a tool to consolidate peace and re?build states in ...

    • Preface 

      Leach, Melissa (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)

    • Introduction: China and International Development: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Gu, Jing; Li, Xiaoyun; Bloom, Gerald; Zhang, Xiulan (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      In parallel to its domestic economic boom, China has also been growing as an international actor and as a ‘Rising Power’ in global development. This introduction outlines the need for further understanding of China's own ...

    • China's Role in the Rising of the South: Vision for 2030 

      Hu, Angang; Gao, Yuning; Yan, Yilong; Wei, Xing (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      This article examines China's major development contributions, looking at its wider impact on world development. In particular, the article examines the impact of China's development on the changing pattern between the ...

    • Difference or Indifference: China's Development Assistance Unpacked 

      Li, Xiaoyun; Banik, Dan; Tang, Lixia; Wu, Jin (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      China's growing role in international development through so?called ‘South–South cooperation’ has attracted considerable global attention. This article aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the nature of foreign aid ...

    • The Impact of China on the Donor Landscape in African Fragile States 

      Schiere, Richard (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      This article analyses the impact of China on the donor landscape in African fragile states. This is undertaken by first discussing the global trends of South–South collaboration as part of the broader post?Busan development ...

    • China's Foreign Aid Policy and Architecture 

      Xue, Lan (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      As China's engagement in low?income countries has deepened, particularly in Africa, so has criticism of China's development programmes and practices. New developments in Africa and the international aid architecture warrant ...

    • China's Role in Burma's Development 

      Renwick, Neil (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      China has been a long?standing partner for Burma (Myanmar), providing important political, military and economic support. Burma's reform process poses new questions and challenges for China. China's interests in Burma are ...

    • China and African Development: Partnership not Mentoring 

      Gu, Jing; Carty, Anthony (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      This article states the conclusions of major field research into the impact of Chinese public and private economic activity on governance in Africa. China has gone into parts of Africa and sectors of African activity where ...

    • China and the BRICS Development Bank: Legitimacy and Multilateralism in South–South Cooperation 

      Abdenur, Adriana Erthal (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      In 2013 the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping agreed to undertake what will, when implemented, become its most concrete project yet: the BRICS Development Bank (BDB). From the perspective of ...

    • China's Development Finance: What Issues for Reporting and Monitoring Systems? 

      Xu, Jiajun; Carey, Richard (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      This article explores the implications of China's rise for global reporting and monitoring systems (RMSs) in the field of development cooperation. Beyond its fast?growing – albeit still modest – foreign aid, China has ...

    • Business Borderlands: China's Overseas State Agribusiness 

      Xu, Xiuli; Qi, Gubo; Li, Xiaoyun (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, July 2014)
      In the context of widespread interests in China's agro?state?owned enterprises (SOEs), this article starts demystifying four narratives prevailing internationally. In this intellectual landscape, the article coins an ...

    • Foreword 

      Haddad, Lawrence (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)

    • Weighing Up the Risks: The Challenge of Studying ‘Risk’ in Empirical Research 

      Whitfield, Stephen (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)
      Studying multifaceted risks that are simultaneously and differently perceived and experienced presents significant challenges, but gaining insight into multiple realities and rationalities is crucial for achieving effective ...

    • Introduction: New Perspectives from PhD Field Research 

      Djolai, Marika; Kasper, Eric; Santos, Ricardo; Srivastava, Shilpi; Waldman, Linda (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)
      In this introduction, we discuss some of the common issues and experiences expressed in the seven articles of this IDS Bulletin . This issue is a platform for IDS PhD researchers to reflect on their fieldwork experiences, ...

    • Performing Peace?building – Conferences, Rituals and the Role of Ethnographic Research 

      Denskus, Tobias (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)
      This article explores performance and ritual theory in the context of anthropological research on peace?building institutions and knowledge discourses, as well as the process of writing up an ethnographic PhD thesis. Based ...

    • The Power of Wellbeing Discourses among Indigenous and Non?Indigenous People in Mexico 

      Loera?Gonzalez, Juan Jaime (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)
      This article focuses on local perceptions of wellbeing, their underlying social and power relations and the resulting cultural resistance by Rarámuri indigenous people in the Tarahumara region, Mexico. It is based on ...

    • The Necessity of Engaging with Politics: Lessons from the Grass Roots in South India 

      Abraham, Sunita (© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)
      This article highlights the growing role, relevance and practice of politics in the everyday lives of poor people and grass roots NGOs, in relation to rural local government. It draws on experiences from a case study gram ...