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Conceptualising corporate community development

| By Banks, G., Scheyvens, R., McLennan, S., and Bebbington, A. | Third World Quarterly,  01 February 2016, Vol.37(2), p.245-263 | | Full text (PDF) | Summary: Globally there is an increasing focus on the private sector as a significant development actor. One element of the private sector’s role emphasised within this new focus has been corporate social […]

A Hundred Key Questions for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

| By J. Oldekop, L. Fontana, J.Grugel and 42 other authors including A. Bebbington | Published by Development Policy Research, 34(1): 55-82 | Summary: The Sustainable Development Goals (s) herald a new phase for international development. This article presents the results of a consultative exercise to collaboratively identify 100 research questions of critical importance for the […]

Growth, poverty and inequality in sub-national development: learning from Latin America’s territories

| Edited by J. Berdegué, A. Bebbington, and J. Escobal | Special Issue of World Development vol. 73 | | Full text (open access) | This special issue contains the findings from a program conducted over five years in 11 Latin America countries to answer three questions: (1) Are there rural territories that have experienced simultaneous […]

Conceptualizing spatial diversity in Latin American rural development: structures, institutions and coalitions

| By J. Berdegué, A. Bebbington, J. Escobal | Published in World Development, 73:1-10 | | Full text (PDF | Summary: This article is the introduction to a volume containing findings from a program conducted over five years in 11 Latin America countries, to answer three questions: (1) Are there rural territories that have experienced simultaneous economic growth, […]

Governing natural resources for inclusive development

| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence, pp. 86-115. Edited by S. Hickey, K. Sen, B. Bukenya. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Abstract: This chapter addresses institutional and political relationships that govern the interactions between natural resource extraction, economy and society with a focus on the mining and […]

The rural transformation

| By J. Berdegué, T. Rosada, and A. Bebbington | Published in International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects, pp. 463-478. Edited by B. Currie-Alder, R. Kanbur, D. Malone, and R. Medhora. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Abstract: This chapter discusses the rural transformation, a process of comprehensive societal change whereby rural societies diversify their economies and reduce […]

Natural resource extraction and the possibilities of inclusive development: politics across space and time

| By Anthony Bebbington | ESID Working Papers No. 21. Manchester: Effective States and Inclusive Development | | Full text | This paper addresses institutional and political relationships that govern the interactions between natural resource extraction, economy and society with a focus on the mining and hydrocarbon sectors. These relationships help define the implications of […]