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WeD - Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC Research Group
The Wellbeing in Developing Countries
ESRC Research Group
is a CDS project

Sub-Saharan Africa

CDS has a history of involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main contributors are Bevan, Copestake, Johnson, Thomas.

Recent Publications: Sub-Saharan Africa

2008 CDS Authors Other Authors

Chapter in Book

   

'Working with Cases in Development Contexts: Some Insights from an Outlier' - Chapter mostly based on the WeD Ethiopia research for the forthcoming (2008) Handbook on Case-Centred Methods (ed Dave Byrne and Charles Ragin)

Bevan, Pip

 

Conference Paper    

'Financial sector development in East Africa: socio-economic determinants of access and exclusion in Kenya and Uganda Exclusion' presented at the Conference Economic Development in Africa, Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford 16-18 March 2008

Johnson, Susan

 

'A Sociological Perspective on the Causes of Economic Poverty in Ethiopia' Paper in preparation for a Symposium on Poverty organised by the Inter-Africa Group Addis Ababa 9 May 2008

Bevan, Pip

Pankhurst, Alula

Journal Article

 

 

Reconciling the needs and wants of respondents in two rural Ethiopian communities. Social Indicators Research. Jan 2008 Vol86 Issue1 pp129-147

Lavers, Tom

 

2007

CDS Authors

Other Authors

Working Paper

 

 

Asking People What They Want or Telling Them What They ‘Need’? Contrasting A Theory of Human Need With Local Expressions Of Goals. WeD Working Paper No 28

Lavers, Tom

 

Journal Article

 

 

Translation is not enough': Using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess Individual Quality of Life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia. Quality of Life Research Vol6 Issue16 1039-1051

Camfield, Laura

Ruta, Danny

"What is the Structure of South African Happiness Equations? Evidence from Quality of Life Surveys", Social Indicators Research. .82: 311–336

Hinks, Tim

Gruen, Carola

Conference Paper

   
Cultural constructions of ‘wellbeing’ in rural Ethiopia: an investigation of competing local models WeD Conference, Wellbeing in International Development, Bath June 2007

Bevan, Pip

 

Commissioned Paper

 

 

Power Structures and Agency in Rural Ethiopia. Commisioned by the Empowerment Team in the World Bank Poverty Reduction Group. (July 2007)

Bevan, Pip

Pankhurst, Alula

With 'Unequal Structures, Unbuffered Shocks and Undesirable Coping Strategies: Quantitatively-Informed Qualitative Investigations of Extreme Poverty in Ethiopia in 2004 Paper commissioned by the Social Protection Unit of the World Bank, November 2007

Bevan, Pip

Pankhurst, Alula

2004

CDS Authors

Other Authors

Referred Journal Articles

 

 

Gender norms in financial markets: evidence from Kenya World Development, August 2004, Vol 32(8): 1355-1374 (ISSN: 0305-750X)

S Johnson

 

The impact of microfinance institutions in local financial markets: a case study from Kenya, Journal of International Development, Volume 16, Issue 3, April 2004 (ISSN: 0954-1748)

S Johnson

 

“Milking the Elephant”: financial markets as real markets in Kenya, Development and Change, April 2004, Vol 35 (2) (ISSN: 0012 155X)

S Johnson

 

"The Racial Employment Gap in South Africa",
South African Journal of Economics, Vol 72(3), pp.573-80,

Hinks, Tim

M.Brookes

"Pulled Apart, Pushed Together: Diversity and Unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions",
Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations,
Vol 59(4)

T. Hinks

M. Brookes , G. Wood and P. Dibben

2003 CDS Authors Other Authors
Journal - Refereed Article

Growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia: evidence from household panel surveys. World development 31:87-106.

Kebede, Bereket Bigsten, A, A. Shimeles and M. Taddesse
2002 CDS Authors Other Authors
Book (Authored)    
Visions of Development: A Study of Human Values. Edward Elgar Publishing 282 pp Clark, David  

Chapter

   
Are Subsidies Decisive in the Provision of Energy to the Urban Poor? The Cases of Kerosene and Electricity in Ethiopia, in A.A.M. Sayigh, editor, Renewable Energy: Renewables: World's Best Energy Option: Extended Abstracts, World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) VII, 29 June - 5 July 2002, Cologne, Germany Kebede, Bereket  
Journal - Refereed Article    

Inequality and the polarising impact of microcredit: evidence from Zambia's Copperbelt. Journal of international development 14:743-756.

Copestake, James  
Can the urban poor afford modern energy? The case of Ethiopia. Energy policy 30:1029-1045. Kebede, Bereket A. Bekele, and E. Kedir
The managed ASCA model - innovation in Kenya's microfinance industry. Small enterprise development 13:56-66. Johnson, Susan  
Land Tenure and Common Pool Resources in Rural Ethiopia: A Study Based on Fifteen Sites. Africa Development Review, Vol. 14, (1) Kebede, Bereket  
Working Paper    
Affordability of Modern Fuels and Patterns of Energy Demand in Urban Ethiopia, Working Paper No. 295, AFREPREN/FWD, Nairobi, 2002 Kebede, Bereket A. Bekele, and E. Kedir
2001 CDS Authors Other Authors
Chapter    

Stormy weather: microfinance, shocks and the prospects for sustainability in New Roles and Relevance: In Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change edited by David Lewis and Tina Wallace, Bloomfield: Kumarian Press

 

Johnson, Susan Karen Doyle, M. Emrul, Hasan, Eduardo Jimenez and Thalia Kidder
Conference Paper    
The Dynamics of African In/security regimes and Some Implications for 'Global Social Policy', paper presented at the Bath University SPDC Conference, March 2001 Bevan, Pip  
Journal - Refereed Article    
Assessing the impact of microcredit: a Zambian case study. Journal of development studies 37:81-100. Copestake, James;Johnson, Susan S. Bhalotra
Implementing impact assessment and monitoring systems in Zambia. Small enterprise development 12:34-44. Copestake, James Salib, S., S. Cheston, R. Voorhies, L. Reed
Working Paper    
Modern Energy and the Urban Poor in Ethiopia: Literature Review and Empirical Analysis, Report, African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN), Nairobi Kebede, Bereket A. Bekele, and E. Kedir
Allocation and Distribution of Land in Rural Ethiopia: background paper for African Development Report 2002. African Development Bank (ADB), November 2001 Kebede, Bereket  
Illness, Prevention and Cure in Rural Ethiopia: the Macro-Micro Interface, CDS Working Paper, July 2001 Bevan, Pip  
2000 CDS Authors Other Authors
Journal - Refereed Article
Pitfalls of debt cancellation: a counterfactual historical case study of Zambia during the early 1990s. Journal of International Development, 12:585-600. Copestake, James P Weston
1996 CDS Authors Other Authors
Books (Authored)    
The Diplomacy of Liberation: the ANCs Foreign Relations Since 1960 (I.B. Tauris, London; St. Martins Press, New York; Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1996). Thomas, Scott  
1993 CDS Authors

Other Authors

Book (Edited)    
NGO and the State in Africa: redefining institutional boundaries in agricultural development. Overseas Development Institute Copestake, James K Wellard

 

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