ODI Working Papers
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. The ODI focuses on high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. It is engaged with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries. The ODI Working Papers cover such issues as development politics, aspects of public policy for poverty reduction and economic analyses.
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Publications:
- Paying for Progress
- Building Blocks for Equitable Growth: Lessons from the BRICS
- The Age of Choice: Developing Countries in the New Aid Landscape
- Uncertain Frontiers: Mapping New Corporate Engagement in Water Security
- The Economic Case for Adopting Low-Carbon Trajectories in Low-Income Countries
- Who Foots the Bill after 2012? What New Trends in Development Finance Mean for the Post-MDGs
- Shockwatch Bulletin: Monitoring the Impact of the Euro Zone Crisis, China/India Slow-Down, and Energy Price Shocks on Lower-Income Countries
- Water Security: From Abstract Concept to Meaningful Metrics
- Can Aid Address Key Governance Constraints in Public Service Delivery?
- Energy Price Shocks
- Increasing the Effectiveness of Aid for Trade
- Localizing Aid: Can Using Local Actors Strengthen Them?
- Common Constraints and Incentive Problems in Service Delivery
- The Effects of Sector Characteristics on Accountability Relationships in Service Delivery
- Reassessing Aid to Middle-income Countries: The Implications of the European Commission's Policy of Differentiation for Developing Countries
- The UK’s Approach to Linking Development and Security
- The Euro Zone Crisis and Developing Countries
- The Political Economy of the Urban Water-Pricing Regime in Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Designing Public Sector Interventions to Mobilise Private Participation in Low Carbon Development
- Capacity, Complexity and Consulting
- Citizen Voice and State Accountability
- Climate Change in UK Security Policy
- Scaling up Rural Sanitation in Vietnam
- Public Engagement in International Animal Welfare
- Lessons from Deliberative Public Engagement Work
- Children and Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa
- Climate Change, Water Resources and WASH
- Aid Effectiveness: Bringing Country Ownership (and Politics) Back In
- Analysing the Governance and Political Economy of Water and Sanitation Service Delivery
- Water Reforms During the Crisis and Beyond
- Linkages Between Researchers and Legislators in Developing Countries
- The Role of Aid to Middle-Income Countries
- Taking Responsibility for Complexity
- Does Donor Support to Public Financial Management Reforms in Developing Countries Work?
- Policy Responses to the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty
- Spatial Disadvantages or Spatial Poverty Traps
- Spatial Inequality and Urban Poverty Traps
- Patterns of Poverty in Remote Rural Areas
- Spatial Poverty Traps and Ethnic Conflict Traps
- Migration, Remote Rural Areas and Chronic Poverty in India
- Isolation and Poverty
- Spatial Poverty Traps
- Rethinking Social Protection Using a Gender Lens
- Responding to a Changing Climate
- Opportunities and Challenges in Promoting Policy- and Practice-Relevant Knowledge on Child Rights
- Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda
- The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries
- Development, Trade and Carbon Reduction
- Trade, Growth and Poverty: Making Aid for Trade Work for Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction
- Climate Negotiations and Development
- Equity in Development
- Impact of the Economic Crisis and Food and Fuel Price Volatility on Children and Women in the MENA Region
- Analysing and Managing the Political Dynamics of Sector Reforms
- Understanding and Operationalising Empowerment
- Aiding Economic Growth in Africa
- The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries
- The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Developing Countries' Export Volumes and Values
- The Global Financial Crisis and Sub-Saharan Africa
- The Global Financial Crisis and Remittances
- Taking Stock: What Do PEFA Assessments Tell us About PFM Systems Across Countries?
- Governance and Citizenship from Below
- Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use
- Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Situation on Agricultural Markets and Food Security
- Poverty and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview of the Issues
- The Contribution of Services to Development and the Role of Trade Liberalisation and Regulation
- A Review of Ethical Standards and Labels: Is There a Gap in the Market for a New "Good for Development" Label?
- Swings and Roundabouts: A Narrative on Water Policy Development in Sri Lanka
- Painful Lessons: The Politics of Preventing Sexual Violence and Bullying at School
- Political Science? Strengthening Science-Policy Dialogue in Developing Countries
- A "New" Approach to Global Value Chain Analysis
- Practical Approaches to Transboundary Water Benefit Sharing
- Doing the Right Thing Approximately Not the Wrong Thing Precisely: Challenges of Monitoring Impacts of Pro-poor Interventions in Tourism Value Chains
- Donor Support to Private Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The Gambian Tourist Value Chain and Prospects for Pro-Poor Tourism
- Economic Partnership Agreements: A "Historic Step" Towards a "Partnership of Equals"?
- Exploring the Science of Complexity
- Governance Assessments for Local Stakeholders
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty
- The Use of Subsidies by Development Finance Institutions in the Infrastructure Sector
- Closing the Deal: Assessing the Opportunities and Risks for Bretton Woods Governance Reform in 2007
- Rethinking Governance in Water Services
- Making a Difference: M&E of Policy Research
- The Impact of Investing in Children
- Is Zambia Contracting Dutch Disease?
- Participation by the Poor in Luang Prabang Tourism Economy
- Reforming the International Aid Architecture
- Bringing Community-Learnt Knowledge into the Policy Debate
- Building Effective Research Policy Networks
- Aid and the MDG Poverty Target
- (Re)building Developmental States
- CSO Capacity for Policy Engagement
- Understanding Networks: The Functions of Research Policy Networks
- What's Next in International Development? Perspectives from the 20% Club and the 0.2% Club
- What Political and Institutional Context Issues Matter for Bridging Research and Policy?
- Growth and Poverty in Asia: Where Next?
- Informal Traders Lock Horns with the Formal Milk Industry
- Learning From Experience? A Review of Recipient-Government Efforts to Manage Donor Relations and Improve the Quality of Aid
- What Would Doubling Aid do for Macroeconomic Management in Africa?
- The Role of Public Investment in Poverty Reduction: Theories, Evidence and Methods
- Politics and Poverty Reduction Strategies: Lessons from Latin American HIPCs
- Capacity Development for Policy Advocacy: Current Thinking and Approaches Among Agencies Supporting Civil Society Organisations
- Which Way the Future of Aid?
- Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: Insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam
- Facilitating Pro-Poor Tourism with the Private Sector
- Closing the Sovereignty Gap: An Approach to State-Building
- Partnerships and Accountability: Current Thinking and Approaches Among Agencies Supporting Civil Society Organisations
- Globalisation and Education: What Do the Trade, Investment and Migration Literatures Tell Us?
- Networks and Policy Processes in International Development: A Literature Review
- CSO Participation in Health, Research and Policy: A Review of Models, Mechanisms and Measures
- Spyglass. Spigot. Spoon. Or Spanner. What Future for Bilateral Aid?
- How Civil Society Organisations Use Evidence to Influence Policy Processes: A Literature Review
- Incentives for Harmonisation and Alignment in Aid Agencies
- Poverty Monitoring Systems: An Analysis of Institutional Arrangements in Tanzania
- Poverty Monitoring Systems: An Analysis of Institutional Arrangements in Uganda
- Change, Violence and Insecurity in Non-Conflict Situations
- Implementing Knowledge Strategies: Lessons from International Development Agencies
- Drivers of Change and Development in Malawi
- The Washington Consensus is Dead! Long Live the Meta-Narrative!
- Missing Links in the Politics of Development: Learning from the PRSP Experiment
- Fracture Points in Social Policies for Chronic Poverty Reduction
- Politics and the PRSP Approach: Georgia Case Study
- Politics and the PRSP Approach: Vietnam Case Study
- Politics and the PRSP Approach: Bolivia Case Study
- The Search for Synergies between Social Protection and the Productive Sectors: The Agriculture Case
- Livelihood Options? The Political Economy of Access, Opportunity and Diversification
- Politics and the PRSP Approach: Uganda Case Study
- Politics and the PRSP Approach: Synthesis Paper
- The International Aid System 2005-2010: Forces For and Against Change
- Why Cooperate? A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Collective Action
- Food Security and the Millennium Development Goal on Hunger in Asia
- Communication of Research for Poverty Reduction
- Smart Governance?
- The Outreach/Viability Conundrum
- A New Equity Agenda?
- Hidden Livelihoods? Natural Resource-Dependent Livelihoods and Urban Development Policy
- Grounding the State
- Institutional Alternatives and Options for Decentralised Natural Resource Management in India
- Seasonal Migration for Livelihoods in India
- State Transfers to the Poor and Back
- Livelihood Diversification and Non-Timber Forest Products in Orissa
- Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning: An International Development Perspective
- The PRSP Initiative: Multilateral Policy Change and the Role of Research
- Bridging Research and Policy: Insights from 50 Case Studies
- Policy Processes: An Annotated Bibliography on Policy Processes, with Particular Emphasis on India
- How the Sphere Project Came into Being: A Case Study of Policy-Making in the Humanitarian Aid Sector and the Relative Influence of Research
- Sustainable Livelihoods: A Case Study of the Evolution of DFID Policy
- Results-Oriented Expenditure Management: Case Study of Ghana
- Livelihoods, Chronic Conflict and Humanitarian Response
- Seasonal Labour Migration in Rural Nepal
- European Development Cooperation to 2010
- Animal Health Care in Kenya: The Road to Community-Based Animal Health Service Delivery
- Out of Reach: Local Politics and the Distribution of Development Funds in Madhya Pradesh
- Trends and Prospects for Poverty Reduction in Rural India
- Poverty Reduction Outcomes in Education and Health Public Expenditure and Aid
- Results-Oriented Expenditure Management: The Case of Burkina Faso
- Results-Oriented Public Expenditure: Case Study of Mali
- Strengthening the Enabling Environment for Agicultural Technology Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Targets and Results in Public Sector Management: Uganda Case Study
- Results-Oriented Expenditure Management Country Study - Tanzania
- Results-Oriented Public Expenditure in Cambodia
- Resident Capital Outflows: Capital Flight or Normal Flows?
- Measuring Capital Flight: Estimates and Interpretations
- Understanding the Dynamics of Socio-Economic Mobility: Tales from Two Indian Villages
- Results-Orientated Budget Practice in OECD Countries
- Managing Public Expenditure for Development Results and Poverty Reduction
- Results-Based Public Management in Bolivia
- Decentralisation in India: Poverty, Politics and Panchayati Raj
- Devolution as a Threat to Democratic Decision-making in Forestry?
- Rural Non-farm Employment: An Analysis of Rural Urban Interdependencies
- Conducive Conditions: Livelihood Interventions in Southern Somalia
- Conducive Conditions
- A Critical Review of Approaches to Assessing and Monitoring Livelihoods in Situations of Chronic Conflict and Political Instability
- The Use of Participatory Methods for Livelihood Assessment in Situations of Political Instability
- Assessment of Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia
- Food Economy in Situations of Chronic Political Instability
- Food Economy in Situations of Chronic Political Instability
- Understanding and Monitoring Livelihoods Under Conditions of Chronic Conflict
- The Consequences of Conflict: Livelihoods and Development in Nepal
- Livelihoods and Chronic Conflict: An Annotated Bibliography
- Supporting Livelihoods in Situations of Chronic Conflict and Political Instability
- Diversification and Livelihood Options
- Peoples’ Social Movements: An Alternative Perspective on Forest Management in India
- ICTs and Rural Development: Review of the Literature, Current Interventions and Opportunities for Action
- Indian Public Expenditures on Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation Programmes During the 1990s
- Welfare Policies and Politics: A Study of Three Government Interventions in Andhra Pradesh, India
- Democratic Process and Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh, India
- Caste, Class and Social Articulation in Andhra Pradesh
- Moving Mud, Shifting Soil
- Reaching the Poor: The Influence of Policy and Administrative Processes on the Implementation of Government Poverty Schemes in India
- Bridging Research and Policy: An Annotated Bibliography
- Bridging Research and Policy: Context, Evidence and Links
- Decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh, India
- Good Practice in the Development of PRSP Indicators and Monitoring Systems
- Violence in the Central American Region
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Five African Countries
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Mozambique
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Malawi
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority?
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority?
- How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority?
- Information Communication Technologies and Governance
- Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches in Urban Areas
- Pro-Poor Growth in India
- Safety Nets and Opportunity Ladders
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability: The Scope for Policy Reform
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in India
- Sector Wide Programmes and Poverty Reduction
- Social Protection Policy and Practice in Bolivia
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in Bolivia and Colombia
- The Choice of Financial Aid Instruments
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in Vietnam
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in Uganda
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in Nicaragua
- Towards Accountability: Narrowing the Gap Between NGO Priorities and Local Realities in Thailand
- The Potential of Using Sustainable Livelihoods: Approaches in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
- The Basic Budgeting Problem
- Complex Problems…Negotiated Solutions
- Rights, Claims and Capture: Understanding the Politics of Pro-Poor Policy
- Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability: Inception Report of a Study for the Neuchâtel Initiative
- Social Protection Concepts and Approaches: Implications for Policy and Practice in International Development
- The Status of Sector Wide Approaches
- Aid and Public Expenditure: A Guide
- New Approaches to Development Co-operation
- Equity and Efficiency in Contract Farming Schemes
- Sustainable Livelihoods and Political Capital
- Poverty and European Aid in Zambia
- Conflict Management in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects
- Adopting a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Water Projects
- Enhancing Livelihoods Through Participatory Watershed Development in India
- Do the Poor Matter? A Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India
- Applying Livelihood Approaches to Natural Resource Management Initiatives
- The Reality of Trying to Transform Structures and Processes
- The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and Programme Development in Cambodia
- Developing Methodologies for Livelihood Impact Assessment
- The Impacts of Tourism on Rural Livelihoods
- Sustainable Livelihoods and Project Design in India
- The Lahaul Potato Society
- Land Tenure and Economic Development in Rural South Africa
- Traditional Livestock Breeds
- Understanding Rangeland Biodiversity
- Information and Power: Implications for Process Monitoring
- Relativism in Agricultural Research and Development
- The Policy Process
- Drought and Livestock in Semi-Arid Africa and Southwest Asia
- European Aid for Poverty Reduction in Tanzania
- Netherlands Aid Policies for Poverty Reduction
- Panchayati Raj and Watershed Management in India
- Reaching the Poor?
- Food Aid and Food Security in the 1990s
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