Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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Labour Standards and Social Policy: A South Indian Case Study
(Global Labour University, 2012)The paper documents substantial improvements in the living standards of labourers over the past 30 years in villages in the Tiruppur region, a dynamic centre of garment production in western Tamil Nadu. The improvements ... -
Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village
(Wiley, 2014)This paper contributes to an empirical and theoretical understanding of democracy and political participation in India through an ethnographic study of the meanings attached to voting in rural Tamil Nadu. Based on a study ... -
Litigation Against Political Organisation? The politics of Dalit mobilisation in Western Tamil Nadu
(Wiley, 2015)This article examines contemporary Dalit assertion in India through an ethnographic case study of a legal tool being mobilized by Tamil Nadu's lowest-ranking Arunthathiyars in their struggle against caste-based offences. ... -
Genetically modified crops, factor endowments, biased technological change, wages and poverty reduction
(2008)Genetically Modified (GM), Herbicide Tolerant (HT) white maize, developed in the USA to save labour, is being grown by smallholders in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. This paper uses panel data for Africa, Asia and Latin ... -
Output and labour effects of GM maize and minimum tillage in a communal area of KwaZulu Natal
(Economic Society of South Africa, 2006)Insect resistant (Bt) white maize and minimum tillage are being adopted by smallholders in Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal. Bt cotton contains the genes controlling the production of a natural insecticide, Bacillus thuringiensis ... -
Social pathways for Ebola Virus Disease in rural Sierra Leone, and some implications for containment
(Public Library of Science, 2015)The current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Upper West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Molecular evidence suggests spread has been almost exclusively through human-to-human contact. Social factors are thus clearly ... -
Social Network Analysis Predicts Health Behaviours and Self-Reported Health in African Villages
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The provision of healthcare in rural African communities is a highly complex and largely unsolved problem. Two main difficulties are the identification of individuals that are most likely affected by disease and the ... -
Elusive Partnerships: Gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2012)This paper examines Chevron's programme of CSR at a gas field in Bangladesh. Whilst apparently building partnerships in the villages that surround the Bibiyana Gas Field, we suggest that the corporation remains detached ... -
The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of a quasi-experiment
(2010)Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment ... -
Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages
(Elsevier, 2012)Assorting on gender is casually observed in developing countries and is now systematically built into many group-oriented development interventions. In this paper we explore the mechanisms underlying the emergent gender ... -
Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?
(University of Chicago Press, 2012)We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affect who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa, by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys, and a genealogical-mapping ... -
Innovation in India's Informal Economy
(Council for Social Development, 2015)This paper examines the ubiquitous formal-informal duality of Indian economy through a case study of Arni, a Moffusil town of Northern Tamil Nadu. Arni is populated by about one lakh people; the majority of them are low ... -
The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India
(2014)This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of work, in a context of real wage rises since about 2005 and the ubiquity of informal ... -
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from SRI and Flooded Rice Production in SE India
(2013)Rice feeds more people than any other crop, but each kilogram of rice is responsible for substantially more greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than other key staple foods. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has recently ... -
Imagining a Silicon Savannah? Technological and Conceptual Connectivity in Kenya’s BPO and Software Development Sectors
(The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2013)This is a paper about expectations surrounding a potentially highly transformative moment in East Africa’s history: the arrival of underwater fibre-optic broadband communications cables into the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. ... -
Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies.
(2015)The paper analyses and compares two transformative moments of technologically-mediated change in East Africa, the construction of the Uganda railway between Mombasa and Lake Victoria (1896-1903) and the introduction of ... -
Geographical imagination and technological connectivity in East Africa
(2014)The paper analyses and compares two transformative moments of technologically-mediated change in East Africa, the construction of the Uganda railway between Mombasa and Lake Victoria (1896-1903) and the introduction of ... -
The internet and business process outsourcing in East Africa: value chains and networks of connectivity-based enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda: Executive Summary
(2014)Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a ... -
The oil company : partnership and the moralities of giving and receiving : corporate community engagement comes to Bangladesh
(2013)Visit the villages in the area that has recently become known as ‘Bibiyana’ in North East Bangladesh and one is struck with a paradox. The villages lie close to a large gas field operated by the multinational oil company ...