Critical reflections on public private partnerships : an introduction / Jasmine Gideon and Elaine Unterhalter -- Situating PPPs / Ben Fine -- Beyond typologies : what is a public private partnership? / Maria Jose Romero and Elisa Van Waeyenberge -- Slum redevelopment in Mumbai as a PPP / Amita...

Critical reflections on public private partnerships : an introduction / Jasmine Gideon and Elaine Unterhalter -- Situating PPPs / Ben Fine -- Beyond typologies : what is a public private partnership? / Maria Jose Romero and Elisa Van Waeyenberge -- Slum redevelopment in Mumbai as a PPP / Amita...

This chapter examines broad livelihood development options for LFAs in the context of dynamic processes of technical, economic, institutional and social change both within and outside LFAs. We address this issue using two different analytical frameworks, the first, a categorisation of...

Recent years have seen a resurgent interest in large scale input subsidies, and particularly fertilizer subsidies, in agricultural development and food security policies in Africa. Very high global grain prices in the first part of 2008 appeared to make such subsidies even more attractive, but...

In recent years understanding of poverty and of ways in which people escape from or fall into poverty has become more holistic. This should improve the capabilities of policy analysts and others working to reduce poverty, but it also makes analysis more complex. This paper describes a simple...

While smallholder development has, in the past, led to reductions in poverty and hunger, does this still apply in today's more globalized world? This paper reviews the debates on the contemporary role of agriculture in development and the case for small farms in light of the rise of...

Do small farms have a future in the developing world? Agriculture and small farms have played a major role in development and poverty reduction in the past, but changing global conditions and donor policies, and the characteristics of today's poor countries are widely acknowledged as making this...