Co-management – a partnership between government, community organisations and other stakeholders – is now a commonly used approach in fisheries management. However, the effectiveness of fisheries co-management has varied considerably, especially in low-income settings. Although research into...

Russia is often included in discussions of emerging donors, but it is an anomalous case whose actual development policies and practices have received little substantive analysis. This article examines internal and external processes that have influenced Russia’s evolving approach to...

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004–2005) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households...