This article aims to understand low-income household's latent behaviour in decision making around accessing financial services. We analyse the determinants of choice surrounding the pre-entry level bank account, Mzansi, by consumers in South Africa. Removing barriers to accessing finance should...

Since the mid-1980s, the Indian manufacturing sector has rapidly increased its integration with the world economy. In this article, we examine whether international trade created or destroyed jobs both in the Indian formal and informal manufacturing sectors. We use a variety of methodological...

Nous analysons, à l’aide d’un modèle de régression binomiale négative à inflation de zéros, en quoi avoir un capital social de réseaux peut aider les ménages ruraux à atténuer les contraintes de crédit. Dans le contexte de l’économie du développement, la méthode de recueil de...

While external programmes developing civil society receive criticism for adhering to a Westernised, neo-Tocquevillean development model, the case of the European Union (EU) and Turkey is different. Turkey's European aspirations legitimise the efforts to ‘democratise’ its civil society, and...

This article compares group inequalities and policies of inclusion in four major emerging economies: Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Bringing together the evidence on inequalities in these large countries is important: they have a large influence on global inequalities, and it is critical...

Le boum des produits de base observé entre 2003 et 2011 a constitué la plus longue période de hausse des prix de ces produits enregistrée depuis la deuxième guerre mondiale. Cet article examine le rôle de la demande chinoise dans la hausse des prix et son impact sur le futur comportement...

This article investigates the effect of the devolution of power to the village-level government on the household-level allocation of poverty alleviation programmes, namely, Integrated Rural Development Programmes (IRDP) and Rural Public Works (RPW), drawing upon National Sample Survey data and...