type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Traditional justice, or what this article refers to as ‘ethnojustice’, claims to promote social reconstruction, peace and justice after episodes of war by rebuilding traditional order. Ethnojustice has become an increasingly prominent mode of transitional justice in...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Rights-based approaches have become prevalent in development rhetoric and programmes in countries such as India, yet little is known about their impact on development practice on the ground. There is limited understanding of how rights work is carried out in India, a country...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Using Costa Rica's experience with its payments for ecosystem services (PES) programme, this article examines how and why some groups come to be excluded from participating in the programme. It demonstrates that Costa Rica's PES programme results in payments that generally...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article examines the shifting household organization of care and livelihoods in a community of Vietnam's Red River Delta that has a history of migrating to work in the urban waste trade, and has been doing so increasingly since the socialist country embraced a market...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article analyses how neoliberal restructuring encouraged the use of participatory methods in agricultural research in Bolivia and how, at a later stage, participatory development initiatives had to be adapted to prevent conflicts with the post-neoliberal views of farmer...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Over the last decade, the global value chain (GVC) approach, with its associated notions of chain governance and firm upgrading, has proliferated as a mode of analysis and of intervention amongst development institutions. This article examines the adoption and adaptation of...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>In an article published in this journal in 2011, an alternative measure of inequality was suggested, which has subsequently become known as ‘the Palma Ratio’. In this new article, the author of the original proposal revisits the argument for such a measure. Using new...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Participatory approaches remain central to development practice and the World Bank continues to espouse them with the promise to make its aid more pro-poor. Yet participation's (in)effectiveness has become the focus of renewed, polarizing debates, and assessments of the form...</p>