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Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates

| Edited by A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl, and A. Johnson | Special issue of Development and Change October 2013 | Summary: The literature on extractive industries has grown rapidly in recent years both because the empirical significance of resource extraction has increased and because resource extraction necessarily invokes other questions of wider purchase in development studies. […]

Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates

| By A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl, A. Johnson | Published by Development and Change, 30 September, 2013 | Abstract: The literature on extractive industries has grown rapidly in recent years both because the empirical significance of resource extraction has increased and because resource extraction necessarily invokes other questions of wider purchase in development studies. This virtual issue […]

Local capacity, village governance and the political economy of rural development in Indonesia

| By A. Bebbington, L. Dharmawan, E. Farmi, and S. Guggenheim | Published in World Development 34(11): 1958-1976 | | Full text (PDF) | Abstract: This paper develops a framework for conceptualizing local capacity to address village level livelihood and governance problems. The framework is based on an analysis of asset distribution, combined with an explicit […]