Why should I care about economic growth?
Director of UNU-WIDER, Professor Kunal Sen is a world-leading expert in development economics and led on ESID's research into economic
Co-producing knowledge about government vision, commitment and capacity to reduce urban poverty in Uganda
28 June 2016 By Sophie King in conversation with Katana Goretti, Peter Kasaija and Silver Owere In the first
Urban poverty in Uganda
Title What shapes state vision, commitment and capacity to reduce urban poverty in Ugandan towns and cities? A comparative study
The political economy of measuring state capacity and governance: Mapping transnational approaches and their production
Objective Given the immediate relevance for both the academic and the policy debate of the Post-2015 and Post-2030 development agendas,
The political economy of social protection
Phase 1 - the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa Objectives This research analyses the political economy of
The politics of regional inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Ghana and Uganda
Objectives This project aims to deepen our understanding of the structural underpinnings of spatial inequality from a comparative perspective. It
Mapping the elites of development: a cross-national dataset of policy-makers' educational and professional backgrounds
Objective This project aims to generate valid and reliable data on the educational and professional background of key political and
Determinants of state capacity in developing economies
Objective This project aims to improve the current understanding of the structural conditions that underlie state capacity. It has a twofold
Have newly created Indian states promoted inclusive development? A comparison of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh
Objectives This project aims to bridge a gap in the understanding of differing development performance of newly created states, through
The political economy of agency-level governance and performance in South Africa: A preliminary round of comparative case studies
Objectives The goals of this project are two-fold: to explain why individual public agencies perform the way they do; and
The politics of state-business relations
Objectives This project aims to understand the nature and consequences of business-state interactions, through exploration of the politics of these
The provision of basic education in South Africa: Institutional and political challenges
Objectives Describe the de facto patterns of the governance of the teaching resource (with specific attention to their differences from
The politics of core public sector reform: Leadership, social accountability and policy adaptation
Objective This project analyses whether 'new' approaches to public sector reform (PSR) centred on leadership, social accountability or policy adaptation
The political economy determinants of economic growth
Objective This project aims to contribute to the literature on the political determinants of growth in three ways: Attempting to
The political economy of growth in Cambodia
Objective The political economy determinants of economic growth in Cambodia are studied using a political settlements approach, buttressed by conceptual
The political settlement and social provisioning in Cambodia
Objective In this project, political settlements and social provisioning in Cambodia are explored, using the health service as the unit
The politics of natural resources and inclusive development
Objective This project tracks the historical experience of countries with long-established histories of natural resource extraction in both Latin America
Oil, governance and inclusive development in Ghana and Uganda
Objective This study examines the implications of the recent oil finds in Ghana and Uganda. Cases Ghana and Uganda have
Gender and the political settlement
Objective This research project aims to investigate the relationship between women’s [political] inclusion and their ability to deliver gender-inclusive development,
The political economy of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India
Objective This research is based on the working hypothesis that state capacity at the sub-national and local levels, and the
Urban poverty in India
Title Understanding reasons to account for the specific nature and impacts of state interventions to reduce urban poverty in India,
The impact of ethnicity on state capacity
Objective The aim of this project is to arrive at some general theoretical formulations about the influence of ethnicity on