Local currencies (LCs) are seen as a means of achieving greater local economic and environmental sustainability by keeping value circulating locally. However, there is weak evidence regarding their success on this score, not least because their achievement of scale is rare. There is rather more...

This paper is a lightly edited transcript of Sarah's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on April 25, 2018. It draws on primary research in Zambia but also reflects on the promotion of wellbeing in the UK. There are three main points. 1. The need to recover a key promise of the focus on wellbeing, to...

The decline of industry in Southern Africa has prompted James Ferguson to question the bases on which the region's poor may justify claims on resources, if not through their labour. This article builds from Fergsuon's work by looking at the continuing importance of chieftaincy to distributive...

This report uses a theoretical framework based on Sen's Capability Approach to suggest financial capability should be understood as a set of reachable financial opportunities, which individuals have reason to value to achieve their wellbeing goals. From this perspective, financial inclusion can...

National non-governmental development organisations (NNGDOs) in Ghana are confronted with declining external donor funding, arising in part from the country's promotion to a lower-middleincome status, but also more complex changes in external funding modalities. This presents incentives for...

This article explores the implications of framing an event as a 'crisis' through the case study of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork during and after the outbreak. It traces how Ebola came to be declared an emergency, and the processes, which led to...

National non-governmental development organisations (NNGDOs) in Ghana are confronted with declining external donor funding, arising in part from the country's promotion to a lower-middle-income status, but also more complex changes in external funding modalities. This presents incentives for...

Recent years have seen a rise in the use of cash-based assistance but whilst humanitarian contexts lend themselves well to the digitisation of aid, cash assistance remains a very small part of humanitarian aid. This white paper examines how the increased use of digital cash transfer technology...

This paper critiques popular academic understandings of development towards a post-capitalist, post-work society based around the automation of production and the provision of a basic income to those displaced by its effects. By focusing on work and its escape as the central issue at stake in...