Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have made important contributions to the furthering of development, particularly in health care and education. They have also stood up to dictatorial regimes, as with the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. Protestant organisations,...

This paper discusses a pilot project in the UK which is providing training, credit, and support to women from low-income communities in Norfolk (in the east of England). As well as situating this initiative in the contexts of wider debates within development studies, international political...

The World Bank and other international development agencies have declared empowerment to be central to their anti-poverty programmes. They are vague over meaning, and may be using the term partly to advance their own organizational interests. The term may imply more political confrontation than...

The article is a critical commentary on the World Bank's analysis of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as exemplified in its recently-published Report, Bureaucrats in Business. While noting the positive contributions made by the Report, the article criticises the World Bank's understanding of the...