type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article seeks to bring to the attention of a readership in development studies a distinction in the literature on causation, and to show how it matters for poverty. The distinction is between ‘difference-making’ and ‘production’ as a depiction of the causal...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>The extensive analytical focus on how gender relations in working lives, employment, education, political engagement and public life change under modernity needs extension into a consideration of the ways in which kinship and relatedness have also been changing. This article...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Recent studies of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa often focus on government recognition granted to traditional authorities. This article examines northern Ghana, where chiefs of a minority group are denied formal recognition but pressure state officials to recognize...</p>