MPhil/ PhD Programme Guide

2012- 2013

Department of International Development LSE

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

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A copy of this document may also be found on Department’s website at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/home.aspx

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CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Post-Graduate Research in the Department of International Development 1.2 ID Staff 2. ADMISSIONS 3. STARTING RESEARCH STUDY AT ID 3.1 Upon arrival at ID

3.2 Inductions 3.3 Study space and computer facilities

4. LECTURES, SEMINARS AND COURSE WORK 4.1 Research seminar in Development Studies 4.2 Methodology Course Requirements 5. EVALUATION AND PROGRESS OF A RESEARCH STUDENT AT ID 5.1 The Research Proposal 5.2 Seminar presentation and submission of the Research Proposal 5.3 Review of the research proposal and upgrading 5.4 Students and their supervisor/s 5.5 Annual Review of Research Students 5.6 Research Abroad 57 Ethics Committee 5.8 Part-time research students 5.9 Duration of Studies and Submission of the dissertation 6. STUDENT LIVELIHOOD

6.1 Financing studies 6.2 ESRC 6.3 Thesis Prize 6.4 Conference Attendance

6.5 Student-Staff Committee at ID 6.6 Social life at ID 6.7 Visiting Research Fellows at ID 6.8 Contact with the field of Development Studies 6.9 Jobs and references 6.10 Academic and Professional Development for PhD students 6.11 Careers Adviser for PhD students Appendix 1 Personal Safety and your dissertation

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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES MPhil/PhD Programme 2010- 2011 These guidelines are subject to the University Regulations for Research Degrees which can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/academicRegulations/regulationsForResearchDegrees.htm 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Post-Graduate Research at the Department of International Development The Department of International Development (ID) was established in 1990 to organise an interdisciplinary post-graduate taught-course and research programme on development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Our programme of study is oriented particularly towards less developed countries and their relationships with the more advanced economies. Because the problems of development know no disciplinary boundaries, we have worked to attract scholars and students committed to elaborating interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of social development and change. ID works closely with the disciplinary departments and other interdisciplinary institutes and centres at the School in its teaching and research programmes. The staff and research students of the LSE as a whole represent one of the world's largest bodies of scholars working on development issues. In some cases, where it is in the interests of our students, we are able to arrange for joint supervision with specialists from within other departments or Institutes within the School. Scholarship on development issues at the LSE is facilitated by the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES), which houses one of the world's largest specialist collections of books, pamphlets, periodicals and official publications on the social sciences. Together with the University's Senate House Library and other specialist libraries and London collections, this makes the LSE an ideal base for research on development. 1.2 International Development Staff Our current staff concentrate expertise on rural development and change, globalisation and global political economy, inequality and poverty, politics and development, population and development, institutional and organisational theory, development management, complex emergencies, democratisation, environment and development, and on civil society, non-governmental organisations and local development, and regional expertise on South, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Eastern and Southern Africa, and Latin America (especially Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua). Founded as the Development Studies Institute (DESIN), The Institute was headed by Professor Lord Meghnad Desai from its foundation through to the 1994-95 academic year, becoming the Department for International Development in 2010. The current Head of Department is Professor Tim Allen. Professor Tim Allen BA (Lancaster); MA (Manchester); PhD (Manchester) Professor in Development Anthropology and Head of Department, ID, LSE. Research Director, Justice and Security Research Programme, LSE

Recent publications include: The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality (ed. with Koen Vlassenroot, Zed Books, 2010); Southern Sudan at Odds With Itself (with Mareike Schomerus, LSE/DFID/PACT, 2010); Trail Justice: the International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army (Zed Books, 2006), Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (ed. with Alan Thomas, Oxford University Press, 2000), Culture and Global Change (ed.

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with T. Skelton), Routledge, 1999; Ethnicity and Conflict in Europe and Beyond, (ed. with J.Eade, Kluwer, 1997); In Search of Cool Ground: War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa, (ed. James Currey, London, 1996); When Refugees Go Home, (ed. with H Morsink, James Currey, London, 1994).

Current research interests include: complex emergencies; ethnic conflict; media reporting of war; forced migration; local conceptions of health and healing; humanitarianism; East Africa - especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya; development/aid agencies; HIV/AIDS in Africa, and parasitic disease control in Africa.

Dr Mayling Birney AB (Harvard), Diploma (Cantab), MSc (LSE), PhD (Yale)

Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development, ID, LSE. Affiliate, Government Department, LSE. Member, Asia Research Centre, LSE.

Current working papers include: China's Rule of Mandates: Village Election Reforms and the Stability of the Central Authoritarian State, and Accurately Inferring Meaning from Incomplete and Insincere Responses to Sensitive Survey Questions in Authoritarian Regimes (with Pierre Landry and Jie Yan).

Current research interests include: China, authoritarian and hybrid regimes, democratization and democratic reforms, regime stability, governance, corruption, rule of law, local-national relations, state-society relations, political participation, and political culture.

Professor Stuart Corbridge BA, PhD (Cantab)

Currently serving as Pro Director Author of Capitalist World Development (Macmillan, 1986), Debt and Development (Blackwell, 1993), Mastering Space: Hegemony, Territory and International Political Economy (with John Agnew, Routledge, 1995), Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (with John Harriss, 2000/2003, Polity Press and OUP-India), Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity (with Sarah Jewitt and Sanjay Kumar, OUPIndia, 2004), and Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (with Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava and Rene Veron, CUP, 2005). His latest book (2012), with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, is India Today: Economy, Polity and Society (Polity Press). Editor of Development: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, 6 volumes (Routledge, 2000), Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India (with Saraswati Raju and Satish Kumar, Sage, 2006) and The Development Reader (with Sharad Chari, Routledge 2009). Managing Editor of Economy and Society, and author/co-author of more than 75 articles in refereed journals and books. Worked extensively for DFID on issues relating to forest policy and politics, governance, social capital, drivers of change, and participation. Also worked for World Bank and UNDP and was Special Advisor in 2004-5 to House of Commons Select Committee on International Development (on official development assistance to India). Current research interests include: formation of development thought, 1940-1980; political economy of development in India; civil and political society in India. Professor Tim Dyson Professor of Population Studies Professor of Population Studies. Author of Vital Rates in India, 1961-81 (with Mari Bhat and Samuel H. Preston, National Academy Press, 1984); Population and Food - Global Trends and Future Prospects (Routledge, 1996); Population and Development--The Demographic Transition (Zed Books 2010); editor, India’s Demography - Essays on the Contemporary Population (with Nigel Crook, South Asian Publishing, 1984); India’s Historical

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Demography - Studies in Famine, Disease, and Society (Curzon Press, 1989); Sexual Behaviour and Networking - Anthropological and Socio-cultural Studies on the Transmission of HIV (Derouaux-Ordina, 1992); Famine Demography - Perspectives from the Past and Present (with Cormac Ó Gráda, Oxford University Press, 2002); Twenty-first Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and the Environment (with Robert Cassen and Leela Visaria, Oxford University Press, 2004); numerous published papers. Current research interests include: the causes and consequences of global warming; fertility, mortality, migration and urbanisation; the demography of India, past, present and future; world food prospects; causes and consequences of famines; the demographic transition and population and development interrelations; HIV/AIDS. Dr Jean-Paul Faguet AB (Princeton), MPP (Harvard), MSc (LSE), PhD (LSE) Reader in the Political Economy of Development, ID (and affiliated to STICERD and the Institute for the Study of the Americas), LSE. Recent publications include: Faguet, JP. 2012. Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Zuazo, M, JP Faguet, and G Bonifaz (eds.). 2012. Descentralización y democratización en Bolivia: La historia del Estado débil, la sociedad rebelde y el anhelo de democracia. La Paz: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; Faguet, JP. 2009. Governance From Below in Bolivia: A Theory of Local Government With Two Empirical Tests. Latin American Politics and Society, 29(4): 29-68. 2009; Faguet, JP and Z Ali. 2009. Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions and the Improving Health of Bangladesh. World Development. 37: 208–218; Faguet, JP. 2009. Mejorando la educación y la salud de los pobres: Descentralización y reformas de política en Colombia. Perspectivas, 7: 73-88; Faguet, JP and F Sánchez. 2008. Decentralization’s Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia. World Development, 36: 1294–1316; Faguet, JP. 2008. Decentralization’s Effects on Public Investment: Evidence and Policy Lessons from Bolivia and Colombia. Journal of Development Studies, 44: 1100–1121; Faguet, JP. 2008. The Determinants of Central vs. Local Government Investment: Democracy and Development in Bolivia. Chapter 7 in Ghosh, S. and S.S. Mishra (eds.). Decentralization and Development, Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press. Current research interests include: the political economy of violent uprisings, the republican origins of Comparative development, the end of 'development', models of democracy, decentralization, local government effectiveness, and the economics and politics of Latin America. Dr. Tasha Fairfield BA (Harvard), MA, MS (Stanford), Ph.D (University of California, Berkeley) Lecturer in Development Studies Recent publications include: Business Power and Tax Reform: Taxing Income and Profits in Chile and Argentina. Latin American Politics and Society 52 No. 2 (Summer 2010): 51-71. Current research interests include: the political dynamics of democracy, inequality, and redistribution, the political economy of taxation, business politics, and Latin American politics, especially Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.

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Dr Tim Forsyth B.A. (Oxford), PhD (London) Reader in Environment and Development, specializing in environmental governance, and the implementation of global environmental policy in developing countries. Author of Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers (about environment in Thailand) (with A. Walker, Washington, 2008); Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science (Routledge, 2003); International Investment and Climate Change: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries (Earthscan, 1999); and editor of the Encyclopedia of International Development (Routledge, 2005); and author of numerous papers and book chapters on contested environmental science; and climate technology transfer. A specialist on Asia, and especially Southeast Asia. Current research interests include: Adaptation to climate change; Forests and climate change; Public-private cooperation and devolved governance in climate change policy; environmental social movements; deliberative and inclusionary environmental policy processes in developing countries; the politics of environmental science and expertise. Dr Stuart Gordon BA (Kent), MA Kent, PhD (Lancaster). Lecturer in International Development and Managing Humanitarianism. Recent Publications include: • ‘Alms and Armour: Health, Humanitarianism and the military’ (MUP: Manchester, 2013

forthcoming). Single authored book. • ‘Afghanistan’s Stabilisation and Transition: Hope in a Dystopian Sea?’ chapter in Robert Muggah (Ed)

‘Stabilization Operations, Security and Development: States of Fragility’ (Routledge: Oxon, forthcoming).

• Victoria Metcalfe, Simone Haysom and Stuart Gordon, ‘Trends and challenges in humanitarian civil–military coordination: A review of the literature’ Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Working Paper, Overseas Development Institute, May 2012 at http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/docs/7679.pdf

• Health interventions, statebuilding and legitimacy: reconsidering the paradigm?’ Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (published in April 2011).

• ‘Health, Stabilisation and Securitisation: Towards Understanding the Drivers of the Military Role in Health Interventions’ Journal of Medicine, Conflict and Survival (published in spring 2011).

• ‘Health, Conflict and Stabilisation: A Review of Models and Evidence.’ Research monograph for the Cross Government Working Group on Conflict and published by the UK Stabilisation Unit at http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/attachments/article/523/ExploringtheevidencerelatingHealthandConflictinterventionsandoutcome.pdf

• Stuart Gordon, Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and. Security in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.’ April 2011(Boston, Ms: Feinstein Centre, Tufts University) at http://sites.tufts.edu/feinstein/2011/winning-hearts-and-minds-examining-the-relationship-between-aid-and-security-in-afghanistan%E2%80%99s-helmand

• Stuart Gordon, ‘The UK’s Stabilisation Model and Afghanistan: Assessing the Impact on Humanitarian Actors’ Disasters Journal, October 2010, Vol.34, No.1. pp. 368-387.

• Defence Policy and the ‘Joined Up Government’ Agenda: Defining the limits of the ‘Comprehensive Approach.’ In D Brown (Ed) British Defence Policy (London: Routledge, 2011).

• ‘Measures of Effectiveness: Examining the United Kingdom in Afghanistan’ in Sarah Jane Meharg (Ed) Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management (McGill University Press/Pearson Peacekeeping Centre: Montreal/London, 2009).

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• Theo Farrell and Stuart Gordon, ‘COIN Machine: the British Military in Afghanistan’ Orbis Fall 2009, Volume 53, Number 4: 665-683.

• Theo Farrell and Stuart Gordon, ‘COIN Machine: the British Military in Afghanistan,’ RUSI Journal 154/3 (2009): 18-25.

• ‘The New Humanitarians? The Military and the Humanitarian Ethic’ in J Howell (Ed) ‘Civil Society under Strain: the War on Terror regime, civil society and aid post-9/11’ (Kumarian Press: 2009).

Current Research interests include: Securitisation of humanitarian and development assistance; stabilisation and stability operations; complex emergencies; humanitarianism; health and conflict; disaster preparedness/recovery; Afghanistan; civilian status in conflict. Dr Elliott Green AB (Princeton), MSc (LSE), PhD (LSE) Lecturer in Development Studies Recent publications include: ‘Nation-Building and Conflict in Modern Africa,’ with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, World Development, forthcoming; ‘The Political Demography of Conflict in Modern Africa,’ Civil Wars, forthcoming; ‘Explaining African Ethnic Diversity,’ International Political Science Review, forthcoming; ‘The Reversal of Fortune Thesis Reconsidered,’ with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Journal of Development Studies 48, 7 (July 2012): 817-831; ‘On the Size and Shape of African States,’ International Studies Quarterly 56, 2 (June, 2012): 229-244; ‘Democratization and Decentralization in Contemporary Africa: Evidence from Sudan and Ethiopia,’ Democratization 18, 5 (December, 2011): 1087-1105 ; ‘Patronage as Institutional Choice: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda,’ Comparative Politics 43, 4 (July, 2011): 421-438; ‘The Political Economy of Nation Formation in Modern Tanzania,’ Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 49, 2 (April, 2011): 223-244. Current research interests include: political demography, including such topics as population growth, urbanization and migration; history and development; ethnicity and nationalism; decentralization; land reform; and the economics and politics of Africa, especially Botswana and Uganda but also Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Sudan. Dr Lloyd Gruber BA (Harvard), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Stanford), PhD (Stanford) Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development, ID, LSE. Director, LSE M.P.A. Programme in International Development. Recent publications include: "Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations", chapter 5 in M. Barnett and R. Duvall (eds.). Power in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press. 2005; "Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon", Comparative Political Studies (2001); Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2000. 'Globalisation with Growth and Equity', Third World Quarterly, vol 32, no 4 (May 2011), pp. 629-652. Current research interests include: globalization, inequality, and redistribution; international and comparative political economy; global governance; European integration; and U.S. foreign economic policy. Professor Jude Howell BA (York), PGCE ( Leicester), M.Phil (IDS, Sussex), PhD (IDS, Sussex). Professor in Politics of Development, ID, LSE.

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Jude Howell has written extensively on civil society issues in relation to development and security. She has also conducted extensive research on China. She is Director of the ESRC Non-governmental Public Action Programme and former Director (2003-2010) of the LSE Centre for Civil Society. She is editor of a book series on Non-Governmental Public Action with Palgrave Press. Her recent book publications include: Counter-terrorism, Aid and Civil Society. Before and After the War on Terror, 2010, (co-authored with Jeremy Lind, Palgrave); Civil Society Under Strain. Counter-terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post-9/11, 2010 (edited with J. Lind, Kumarian Press), Governance in China, 2003 (Rowman and Littlefields, Inc.), Gender and Civil Society 2004, (edited with Diane Mulligan, Routledge), Civil Society and Development. A Critical Interrogation, 2001, (co-authored with Jenny Pearce, Lynne Rienner Inc.), In Search of Civil Society. Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China, 1996, Oxford University Press (coauthored with Gordon White and Shang Xiaoyuan), China Opens its Doors: The Politics of Economic Transition, 1993 (Routledge). She has over 60 articles and book chapters of Civil Society; labour issues, Civil Society and gender in China; Civil Society, security and development; non-governmental public action. She has worked in a policy advisory capacity on issues of governance, civil society, poverty reduction and health for various international development agencies including UNDP, ILO, Ford Foundation, Save the Children Fund, UK Department for International Development, AusAID, and the British Council. Current research interests include: civil society and development; politics of aid; civil society and security; governance issues, particularly in China; trades unions and labour relations. Her research and consultancy experience has covered China, India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Professor Mary Kaldor Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She previously worked at the Stockholm Peace Research Institute and the University of Sussex, including the Science Policy Research Unit, before coming to the London School of Economics in 1999. In addition, she was a founder member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), founder and Co-Chair on the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly, a member of the Independent International Commission to Investigate the Kosovo Crisis chaired by Richard Goldstone, and a governor for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She has written widely on security issues and on democracy and civil society. Her recent books include The Baroque Arsenal (Andre Deutsch 1982), New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (Polity Press, 2nd ed. 2006), Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (Polity Press 2003), Human Security: Reflections on Globalisation and Intervention (Polity Press, 2007) and most recently The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of war and Peace (PublicAffairs, 2010) written jointly with a US Army officer. She directs the Global Civil Society programme that produces the annual Global Civil Society yearbook, and the Global Security Programme at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She is currently convenor of the Human Security Study Group, assembled at the request of Javier Solana, then High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, which produced ‘A Human Security Doctrine for Europe’(2004) ‘A European Way of Security’ (2007) and ‘Helsinki Plus: A Human Security Architecture for Europe’ (2010). In 2009-2010, she was a member of the Defence Advisory Forum which advised the Minister of Defence on the preparation of a green paper on Defence.

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Professor David Keen BA (Cambridge); Journalism Diploma (City University); MSc (LSE); D. Phil (Oxford) Professor of Conflict Studies, LSE, ID Author of Complex Emergencies (Polity, 2008), Endless War? Hidden Functions of the 'War on Terror' (Pluto, 2006), Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (James Currey, 2005), The Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-89 (Princeton, 1994), The Kurds in Iraq: How Safe is their Haven Now? (Save the Children Fund, 1993), Refugees: Rationing the Right to Life (Zed, 1992), as well as many articles and book chapters on famine and war. Current research interests include war veterans, the 'war on terror', conflict in Sierra Leone, the nature of contemporary civil warfare, the use and abuse of information in the disaster zone, and the political and economic functions of 'disasters'. Dr Katy Long BA(Hons) Cantab, M.Phil (Cantab.), PhD. (Cantab) Lecturer in Managing Humanitarianism, ID, LSE Recent publications include: The point of no return: refugees, rights and repatriation (forthcoming); Imagining Rwanda in Exile: the politics of Rwanda's first refugees, 1959-1964 (forthcoming); You know you want to: UNHCR and "voluntary" repatriation, UNHCR Evaluation 2011; ‘Refugees, repatriation and liberal citizenship’, History of European Ideas, June 2009; 'Home alone? A review of the relationship between repatriation, mobility and durable solutions for refugees', UNHCR Evaluation 2010 ; ‘Early Repatriation Policy: Russian Refugee Return 1922-1924’. Journal of Refugee Studies 2009 Current research interests include: Refugee and migration studies; politics of humanitarianism; citizenship in post-conflict regions; history of international development; the relationship between rights, residency and national membership; the nature of political community; African and Central American history and politics; the relationship between research, advocacy and practice. Her research and consultancy experience has covered Guatemala, the Great Lakes and Eastern and Southern Africa Dr Shirin Madon BA (Kingston); MA (Kingston); PhD (Imperial)

Senior Lecturer in ICT & Socio-economic Development, ID and Dept of Management, LSE.

Recent publications include: E-Governance for Development: A focus on rural India, PalgraveMacmillan, 2009), Health Information Systems, Decentralisation and Accountability, (with S. Krishna and E. Michael), Public Administration and Development,30, 4, pp. 247-260 (2010). IT-Based Government Reform Initiatives in the Indian state of Gujarat. Journal of International Development, 18, 6. (2006), Digital Inclusion Projects in Developing Countries: Processes of Institutionalisation (with G. Walsham, N. Reinhard & D. Roode), IT for Development, 15, 2, pp. 95-108 (2008), Evaluating the Developmental Impact of E-Governance Initiatives: An exploratory framework. In ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Governance, Poverty, eds A. Saith, et al., Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 268-290 (2008), Health Information Systems, Decentralisation and Democratic Accountability (with S. Krishna and E. Michael), Public Administration and Development, (2010).

Current research interests include: Rural E-Governance in India; Telecentres and Development, Health Information Systems for improving primary healthcare in India.

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Dr Kate Meagher Lecturer in Development Studies, ID, LSE

Recent publications include Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria, James Currey, 2010; 'The tangled web of associational life: urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria,' Urban forum, 21 (3). pp. 299-313; 'The Politics of Vulnerability: Exit, Voice and Capture in Three Nigerian Informal Manufacturing Clusters,' In Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa, ed. Ilda Lindell (London and Uppsala: Zed Books and The Nordic Africa Institute, 2010; ‘The Empowerment Trap: Gender, Poverty and the Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar, 2010; ‘Trading on Faith: Religious Movements and Informal Economic Governance in Nigeria,’ Journal of Modern African Studies, 47(3),2009 ‘Manufacturing Disorder: Informal Enterprise and Economic Ungovernance in African Small-firm Clusters’ Development and Change 38(3):473-503, 2007; ‘Hijacking civil society: the inside story of the Bakassi Boys vigilante group of south-eastern Nigeria’ Journal of Modern African Studies 45(1):89-115, 2007; ‘Social Capital or Analytical Liability? Social Networks and African Informal Economies’ Global Networks 5(3) July, 2005

Current research interests revolve around various aspects of ‘informal institutions and development from below’, including the informal economy and economic change in Africa; social networks and non-state governance; organized crime and vigilantism in Africa and Eastern Europe; the politics of informalization in Nigeria and South Africa; enterprise clusters and industrial policy in Asia and Africa; global value chains; Corporate Social Responsibility; ethnicity and identity; new religious movements and class formation in Africa; Islamic networks and informal governance.

Professor Thandika Mkandawire B.A., M.A. (Ohio State University), M (Stockholm University), D. Litt (Rhodes University), Honorary Doctorate by the University of Helsinki (June 2011)

Chair, African Development, LSE. Olaf Palme Professor, University of Stockholm

Co-author, Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment. Dakar/Trenton, NJ: CODESRIA/African World Publications. Editor, Social Policy in Development Context. London: Palgrave/UNRISD. Co-editor Between Liberalisation and Oppression: The Politics of Adjustment in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA. African Voices on Structural Adjustment. Trenton, NJ: CODESRA/IDRC/AWP., (Mkandawire, Thandika 1994); From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus?; African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender, And Development. London: CODESRIA/ZED. Author of more than 65 articles in refereed journals and books. Directed the United Nations Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) for eleven years and the Council of Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA)for 10 years. Sits on several scientific advisory committees and editorial boards of social science journals. Current research interests include: social policy and development, the political economy of economic policy in Africa. Professor James Putzel BA Honours (McGill), MA (McGill), DPhil (Oxford) Professor in Development Studies, ID (and affiliated member of the Government Department), Director, Crisis States Research Centre, ID, LSE (see www.crisisstates.com <http://www.crisisstates.com/> ). Publications include: A Captive Land: Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines (CIIR, Monthly Review and Ateneo University Presses, 1992); “Accounting for the Dark Side of Social Capital” (Journal of International Development, vol. 9, no.7, 1997); “The politics of action on AIDS: a case study of

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Uganda” (Public Administration and Development, vol.24, no.1, 2004), principal author of OECD, "'Do No Harm': International Support for Statebuilding", Paris: OECD 2010. His research and publications range from work on the politics of financial crisis, to work on nationalism, comparative politics of development in Southeast and East Asia, democratic transition, and developmental states, with a particular focus on problems of institutional change. Current research is focusing on politics and governance in crisis states including work on the Impact of Aid in Fragile States and the Challenges of State-building in the Developing World, on which he has undertaken research in Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Philippines. Dr Sandra Sequeira BSc (Universidade Nova, Portugal), PhD (Harvard University) Lecturer in Development Economics, ID, LSE. Research interests in applied microeconomics, applied econometrics and development economics. Current research is on the microeconomics of corruption, the economics of discrimination, private sector development in developing countries and the role of infrastructure in development and growth. Dr Kenneth Shadlen BA (Brown University), MA (University of California, Berkeley), PhD (University of California, Berkeley) Reader in Development Studies, ID. Author of Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico (Penn State University Press, 2004), co-editor of The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas (Palgrave, 2008), The Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information (Edward Elgar, 2009), and Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health: Access to Drugs in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2011). Recent articles include "Challenges to India’s Patent Laws" ([co-authored with Bhaven N. Sampat and Tahir M. Amin] Science, 2012), “The Mexican Exception: Patents and Innovation Policy in a Non-Conformist and Reluctant Middle Income Country” (European Journal of Development Research, 2012), “The Rise and Fall of ‘Prior Consent’ in Brazil” (The WIPO Journal, 2012), "The Political Contradictions of Incremental Innovation: Lessons from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination in Brazil” (Politics & Society 2011), "Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies,” (Comparative Politics 2009), “Globalization, Power, and Integration: The Political Economy of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Americas” (Journal of Development Studies 2008), “The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Generic Supply” (International Studies Quarterly 2007), “Intellectual Property, Trade, and Development: Can Foes be Friends?” (Global Governance 2007), “Exchanging Development for Market Access? Deep Integration and Industrial Policy under Multilateral and Regional-Bilateral Trade Agreements” (Review of International Political Economy 2005), “The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software” ([with Andrew Schrank and Marcus Kurtz] International Studies Quarterly, 2005), “Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO” (Studies in Comparative International Development, 2004).

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Current research interests include: how international regimes affect strategies of economic development; politics of the World Trade Organization; dynamics of bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements; international and domestic politics of intellectual property; intellectual property, knowledge, and development; pharmaceutical industry and health policies. Dr Rajesh Venugopal BA. (NYU), MSc (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon) Lecturer in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. Recent publications include: ‘The Politics of Market Reform at a Time of Ethnic Conflict', in Stokke, K. and J. Uyangoda (eds.), Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reforms in Sri Lanka. Anthem (2011). ‘Sectarian Socialism: the Politics of Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi (2010), −Peramuna’. Modern Asian Studies 44(3), pp.567-602; ‘Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka’s Peace Process’, in Raviraman, K., and R. Lipschutz (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. Palgrave. (2009); ‘The Making of Sri Lanka’s Post-Conflict Economic Package and the Failure of the 2001-04 Peace Process’, in Newman, E., R.Paris and O.Richmond, (eds.), New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding. United Nations University Press (2009); Research Interests: Ethnic conflict, development/aid, South Asia, nationalism, post-conflict reconstruction, liberal peace-building, state-business relations, non-traditional donors. Professor Robert Hunter Wade BA(Otago), BA (Hons) (Victoria University of Wellington); DPhil (Sussex). Professor of Political Economy. Winner of Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, 2008, jointly with Jose Antonio Ocampo. (Other winners since 2000 include J. K. Galbraith, Amartya Sen, Dani Rodrik, Alice Amdsen, Daniel Kahneman, Nick Stern, Michael Lipton, Frances Stewart, Albert Hirschman.) The first Sanjaya Lall visiting professor at Oxford, 2011. Founding member of The Financial Times's Economists’Forum (September 2006), which it described as “50 of the world’s most influential economists”. Recent publications include: • 2012, “The G20 has served its purpose and should be replaced”, J. Globalization & Development, 2,

2, article 10; with Jakob Vestergaard. • 2012, “The governance response to the Great Recession: the ‘success’ of the G20”, J. Economic

Issues, XLVI, 2, June; with Jakob Vestergaard. • 2012, “Establishing a new Global Economic Council: governance reform at the G20, the IMF and the

World Bank”, Global Policy, September; with Jakob Vestergaard. • 2012, “Why has income inequality remained on the sidelines of public policy for so long?”, Challenge,

May-June, 21-50. • 2013, “Does trade liberalization contribute to economic prosperity?”, in P. Haas, J. Hird, and B.

McBratney (eds), Controversies in Globalization, 2nd ed., CQ Press (Sage). • 2013, “Iceland’s rise and fall”, in Jan Toporowsky (ed), Handbook of critical Issues in Finance,

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; with Silla Sigurgeirsdottir. • 2012, “The G192 report: UN forced to periphery over financial crisis”, Le Monde Diplomatique

(English), August. • 2012, “The politics behind World Bank statistics: China’s income”, Economic and Political Weekly,

June 23, 17-18. • 2012, Review of Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein (eds.), Owning Development: Creating Policy

Norms in the IMF and the World Bank”, Review of International Organizations, 7, 231-38.

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• 2013, “Boulevard to broken dreams: the standards-surveillance-compliance system in the run-up to the crash of 2008”, Jerry Epstein (ed), festschrift for Jane D’Arista.

• forthcoming, “Economists’ contribution to the second Great Depression”. • forthcoming, “The emerging world order? How western states manage to keep the lead on global

issues”. Current research interests: Globalisation, growth, world poverty and income inequality; the origins and persistence of neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus; capital markets and financial crises; industrial and technology policies; East Asian economic and political development; multilateral economic/financial organisations; the politics and bureaucratic organisation of environmental protection and other global public goods. Dr Diana Weinhold, Research Programme Director BSc (University of Wisconsin), PhD (University of California at San Diego)

Reader in Development Economics, ID, LSE

Research interests in growth and development, applied econometrics, and environmental economics. Selected examples of recent publications include: "The Internet and International Trade in Services" (with Caroline L. Freund), American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 92 no. 2, May 2002; "The Importance of Trade and Geography in the Pattern of Spatial Dependence of Growth Rates" Review of Development Economics, vol. 6 no. 3, 2002; "On the Effect of the Internet on International Trade" (with Caroline L. Freund), Journal of International Economics 62(1) January 2004; "Land Use and Transportation Costs in the Brazilian Amazon" (with Eustaquio Reis), Global Environmental Change vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 54-68, February 2008; "Valuing future development rights and the costs of conservation easements" (with Kathryn Anderson) Ecological Economics, Volume 68, Issues 1-2, December 2008; "Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights" (with Usha Nair-Reichert), World Development, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2009

Administrative Staff Stephanie Davies, Department Manager Susan Hoult, Research Programme Administrator Drucilla Daley, MSc Course Administrator Sarah Edmonds, MSc Course Administrator Victoria Dyas, MSc Course Administrator Wendy Foulds, Programme Manager, Justice & Security Research Programme

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2. ADMISSIONS All applications should be made through the Graduate Admissions Office of the LSE and NOT directly to the Institute. APPLICATION DEADLINES: Closing date for all applications: 26th April 2013 Closing date for those wishing to be considered for funding opportunities: 11th January 20131 We encourage MPhil/PhD applications from outstanding students who wish to undertake interdisciplinary research on a development topic that falls within the expertise of at least one of our faculty members. The main reason for undertaking the research must be a strong desire to explore a particular topic. Students are expected to have a strong academic record and post-graduate training or work experience demonstrating a standard of achievement equivalent to good performance in our own M.Sc. in Development Studies (see LSE annual Calendar). In general, applicants should already have the basic foundational training necessary to begin specific work on their research topic (including a good grounding in one of the social science disciplines, languages necessary for the proposed research, etc.). Of course, most students will need to acquire further methodological training, language skills, or background knowledge of a specific topic related to their research by following some post-graduate courses during their first year at the LSE (all students will be required to attend some seminars during their programme - see below). Some students may be advised first to take the MSc Development Studies (Research). Students should submit a short research proposal (no more than 1,800 words) with their application that will allow us to assess the potential of their proposed project and the availability of appropriate supervision within the Institute. The proposal must be clear and it must contain (a) a section which gives background to the research issue (b) details of the main research questions and/or hypotheses to be addressed and (c) discussion of the research methods to be employed. A sample of written work, preferably showing mark and feedback of not more than 2000 words is also required. Please see the School’s Graduate Admission pages for full details. The closing date for applications is 26th April 2013. Please note that competition is extremely intense and on average only 5% of applicants are taken on each year. The deadline for consideration for an LSE or ESRC scholarship is 11th January 2013. Please see the School’s Financial Support Pages for details of scholarship opportunities: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/students/moneyMatters/financialSupport/ScholarshipsLSE/scholarshipsForStudyatLSE.aspx Applications will be assessed on three general criteria: (1) proof of intellectual ability through past academic work and/or work experience; (2) the feasibility, soundness and originality of the proposed topic of research; (3) the appropriateness of undertaking this research at the LSE, including (especially) the availability of adequate supervision in ID. Although not a requirement, applicants are strongly encouraged to consider submitting Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores in support of their application, in which case please provide documentary evidence of your test scores with percentages not marks, e.g. Verbal 90%. Masters students submitting an application will normally need a grade close to distinction mark (70%) with a distinction in their dissertation. In addition to appointing an ID supervisor, the Department will appoint a second supervisor from ID or one of IDs, Institutes or Centres at the School. Supervisors will be appointed either on the basis of their theoretical or methodological knowledge of the proposed topic of study or their familiarity with the geographical region under study.

1 Please be aware that incomplete applications are not forwarded to the department until all the required elements are received. You are therefore advised to ensure that you have available all these elements in good time. For example, you may have difficulties contacting your referees over the Christmas holidays.

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Applicants for research study at the LSE can only be admitted as MPhil candidates (see transfer to PhD procedure below). Some students may be offered conditional admission based on performance in an on-going degree or with the requirement to follow certain courses and sit exams during their first year at the LSE. English Language Ability Applicants are expected to be able to perform at a high level of competence in the English language. The task of writing a dissertation in a foreign language is a difficult one and should not be underestimated. Students offered a place at ID who have any doubts about their ability to write fluently in the English language should seriously consider further language training before coming to the LSE and contact Graduate Admissions in good time to enquire about English language courses offered during the summer. 3. STARTING RESEARCH STUDY AT ID Students who are offered a place in the research programme at ID may want to make contact with their assigned supervisor before arriving in London. There is no guarantee that the supervisor will be available out of term time. Specific queries can be addressed to the Research Programme Director or the Research Programme Administrator. 3.1 Upon Arrival at ID After attending registration organised by the Graduate School, students should visit the Department and register their address and phone number with the Research Programme Administrator and arrange an appointment with their assigned supervisor. Students may receive post at the Department where it will be deposited in alphabetically arranged pigeon-holes which are located outside the Research Students Room (H713). Students should regularly consult their e-mails for notices. A limited number of lockers are also available for hire on an annual basis for a deposit of £5. Keys can be obtained from the Research Programme Administrator, subject to availability. 3.2 Inductions There are School-wide orientation events which are available to all new students: See the ID website for details: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/home.aspx The orientation meeting for research students will be held on Friday 4th October 2013 at 11 am. This is an opportunity for students to find out the details of their research programme, and to meet some of the department’s academic staff and current research students. In addition, new research students are required to attend a Presentation Skills workshop which will be scheduled early in Michaelmas Term – students will be notified of the precise details at the orientation. 3.3 Study Space and Computer Facilities ID maintains dedicated study space for Research Students equipped with on-line computing facilities and study desks in rooms H715. Please note though that we have more students than PCs. ID uses a Red and Yellow card system to signify when PCs are available, so when students finish working at a particular work station, please use either the Red or Yellow card to signify whether the pc is available for others to use. Word-processing facilities are also available in designated graduate student computer rooms in the

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Library and throughout the School. Students may also use ID’s fax machine in H817 to send and receive faxes related to their research. Very few students can undertake research and writing today without basic knowledge of computing and word-processing skills. Hardware and software for most types of computer applications are available at the School and research students have free access to these facilities. 4. LECTURES, SEMINARS AND COURSE WORK The LSE offers a wide variety of post-graduate courses and seminars, as do other units within the University of London, which are generally open to research students. Work at the MPhil/PhD level often leaves a student more socially isolated than studies at the undergraduate or Masters level, and attending seminars is a way to combat this. This is also a way of meeting students and faculty from different departments and other colleges of the University. The ID Society, run largely by M.Sc. Students maintains an on-line Bulletin Board, which lists some of these series. 4.1 Departmental Research Seminar ID runs a weekly seminar in Development Studies, DV500 every Wednesday 15.00-16.30 in Room CON 1.06. In the second and third terms first-year students will present a brief draft of their research proposal at these weekly seminars. It is a requirement of the ID research programme that students attend DV500 seminars. 4.2 Course Requirements Our research students are encouraged to attend Social Research Methods in Developing Countries which will take place at 9.00 – 11.00am each Friday morning in Michaelmas Term. For those new students who did not receive their MSc in Development Studies from ID, the Department requires that they attend the core course DV400 – ‘Development: Theory, History and Policy’. DV400 lectures are Mondays 10-12 (Hong Kong Theatre), and a special seminar for research students, led by Prof. James Putzel in Michaelmas Term only on Tuesdays between 4.00-6.00pm. In addition, all students will be required to complete one full-unit or two half-unit courses in research methods in the School’s Methodology Institute. The precise courses taken will be decided in consultation with the student’s primary supervisor, and with reference to the nature of the research that the student intends to pursue. The Methodology Institute offers a wide range of courses in qualitative and quantitative methods, though for some students methodology courses offered by other departments may be more appropriate. It is expected that students should achieve a mark of 65% or above in these courses. Failure to do so will mean that you are unable to progress on to the PhD programme and will remain at MPhil until you have completed a further methodology course and achieved an improved grade. Holders of ESRC 1+3 awards who take the MSc Development Studies (Research) will take a full unit course in research methodology comprising selected modules taught in the Methodology Institute at the LSE. Courses can be viewed on the following Methodology Institute web links: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/methodologyInstitute/study/Mi_courses.aspx Research students are also encouraged to participate in the “PhD professional development Programme” which is organised by the Teaching and Learning Centre, together with the Careers Service and Language Centre

• The programme is based around the core course “Authoring a PhD and Developing as a Researcher”, which covers topics from creativity in research design to preparing for the PhD viva. The course is organised into 3 strands for students at different stages of their research: getting started, the middle years and the end-game.

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• For more information on the programme, please contact the Development Adviser for PhD students, Dr Sarabajaya Kumar (s.kumar3@lse.ac.uk) Also see section 6.8 of this Guide.

Research students are encouraged to investigate seminars offered throughout the University of London. Of particular interest to ID students are those offered at: the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for area studies, including specialist centres for Development Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, etc.; and the Institute of Advanced Learning and its component parts including the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, etc. 5. EVALUATION AND PROGRESS OF A RESEARCH STUDENT AT ID 2 As noted above, research students are accepted to the LSE as MPhil candidates. We believe that most students who plan to write a PhD dissertation should be able to complete the process within three years, and in no case more than four years. Part-time students should take no more than eight years. Students who plan to write an MPhil dissertation should take no more than two years. While we follow the LSE’s Regulations for Research Degrees, ID has elaborated its own procedures for research students. Generally speaking, during the first year, students prepare and present a detailed research proposal and finish all preparatory and background work for the dissertation. By the end of the second year, MPhil students should have completed their research and written up their dissertation, while students working on a PhD should have completed all research (including research abroad). By the end of the third year, PhD students should have completed their dissertation or be near to completion. 5.1 The Research Proposal First year students should produce a draft of their research proposal for their supervisors by the end of the first week of Lent term. Following feedback, students must then produce a detailed research proposal and formally submit this to the Research Programme Administrator by the first week of the Summer Term. The proposal should be a clear statement of the what, the why and the how of the proposed research. - what is the problem or question that is under investigation?; - why is it a problem or question and why is it important and interesting? (which will usually mean

reviewing the literature on the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the subject); - how is the problem to be tackled or the question answered: (1) what theoretical issues are raised and

what concepts or conceptual framework will be employed?; (2) what methods are to be employed and why are they chosen in relation to the research question and its theoretical dimensions? (For instance, if a survey is to be undertaken, how will the sample be chosen, what is the research design, and what are the questions that will be included in the schedule? If the work involves a case study, or series of case studies, what is the basis for selection of cases, and what are the questions to be asked?); (3) how will the work be accomplished within three years and what is the schedule for research and writing?

Five Requirements in the Research Proposal: The research proposal should be around 5,000 words in length, up to a maximum of 8,000. It should include: 1. a clear and concise statement of the research question or problem 2. a demonstration of adequate knowledge of theoretical and empirical literature related to the topic

2 These regulations are for students entering the ID MPhil/PhD programme in 2012/13.

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3. a clear statement of what the student imagines will be added to existing knowledge by their study, and why this is important. The focus of the ID PhD must be on original research that contributes to the body of knowledge in a given field.

4. a clear statement of the methodology to be adopted 5. a draft outline of the proposed thesis and a draft work plan to submission date, along with any

questionnaires that may be used.

The proposal must be fully supported with complete footnotes and bibliographical references. The difference between an MPhil and a PhD dissertation An MPhil dissertation should be "a record of original work or an ordered and critical exposition of existing knowledge in any field". It should be not more than 60,000 words in length and a full-time student should normally be able to complete it within the two year minimum residency requirement for all MPhil/PhD students. A PhD dissertation should constitute "a distinct contribution to knowledge of the subject and afford evidence of originality, shown either by the discovery of new facts or by the exercise of independent critical power". It should be not more than 100,000 words in length and a full-time student should normally be able to complete it within three years and not more than four years. These word lengths are inclusive of footnotes and essential appendices, but excluding bibliography and appendices. Full details of the requirements for both the MPhil and PhD dissertation are accessible on the School’s Research Students’ website (Information for current research students). 5.2 Seminar Presentation and Submission of the Research Proposal The student is expected to submit a draft of the proposal on the first day of Lent term. This will be commented on with feedback from supervisors. Then they will present their proposal at the ID Research Seminar during the Lent Term or Summer Term (the only exception is when there are not enough time slots available in any given year). The student must submit the final proposal to the Research Programme Administrator by the first day of Summer Term of the first year (or equivalent for part-time students) and a chapter or paper to be evaluated by their supervisor by the first day of the Michaelmas Term of their second year. An upgrade decision will be made on the basis of work submitted and the results of any methodology courses taken. In all cases, the student must receive the approval of their supervisor(s) and the Department before being allowed to re-register in the next academic year. 5.3 Review of the Research Proposal and Transfer Each research proposal, along with a draft first chapter will be reviewed by the Michaelmas term of the second year of study. These will be reviewed by a Research Committee usually comprising a professor from ID and two other members of the academic staff, as designated by the Research Committee at ID. The student will be invited to meet with the Research Committee or a representative of the Committee to discuss their proposal. The Research Committee will then decide whether: (1) transfer status from MPhil to PhD immediately; (2) confirm as MPhil with transfer to PhD status pending completion of specified revisions to

proposal (without the need to reconvene the panel)

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(3) confirm as MPhil with transfer to PhD status pending completion of specified revisions (but with the expectation that the panel will also meet again)

(4) confirm as MPhil student and set deadline for submission of MPhil thesis; (5) de-register from research programme. In cases involving the resubmission of a proposal, the student must be informed in writing by the supervisor(s): (a) what further work must be accomplished; and (b) the deadline for resubmission and reconsideration of any written work required of the student. The Research Committee's decision will be based on an evaluation of the overall quality of the proposal and the specific accomplishments in relation to the five requirements mentioned in Section 5.1 above. We will be particularly concerned with the quality of the theoretical work, the appropriateness of the methodology and the quality of argument and presentation. Confirmation in MPhil Status To obtain confirmation in MPhil status the student must satisfy the Research Committee that they can complete an MPhil dissertation or achieve transfer to PhD status by the end of their second year. The student's proposal must: 1) include all the five requirements mentioned in Section 5.1 above; 2) demonstrate that the research will constitute a record of original work or an ordered and critical exposition of

existing knowledge of the subject; and 3) show that she/he has all the necessary skills and background knowledge to embark on the research

project. If the Research Committee deems that the quality of the work submitted is not of a high enough standard, or that any of the above requirements are not met it will reject the proposal. Transfer to PhD status The Research Committee may decide, upon review of the proposal, to transfer the student to PhD status immediately. But this is quite unusual and in most cases transfer will require submission of additional work (supplementary literature review, draft chapters, etc.) to be submitted by the date specified by the Research Committee. A student may seek transfer to PhD status through a further submission to the Research Committee at any time before the end of the second year of study. The judgement that a student is ready for "PhD transfer" is necessarily a subjective one related to the Research Committee's assessment that a student's work is likely to lead to a successful PhD dissertation. It is centred on the extent to which the student's work is likely to represent a unique contribution to the stock of knowledge about a subject and to constitute a creative and original piece of work. To obtain transfer to PhD status, an MPhil student's proposal together with any additional work submitted must: 1) include all the five requirements mentioned in Section 5.1 above; 2) prove that the research has the potential to make a contribution to knowledge of the subject and that it will

demonstrate originality; and 3) show that she/he has all the necessary skills and background knowledge to embark on the research

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4) Complete one full unit of Methodology Courses to the required standard (normally 65% +) 5.4 Students and their supervisor/s The student-supervisor relationship is central to the process of undertaking MPhil/PhD research. Students enter the MPhil/PhD programme with a single supervisor, but in due course all students have two supervisors. In some instances these two will be “co-supervisors” who share responsibility. In other instances one person is clearly identified as the primary supervisor, with second supervisor’s role being to provide back-up and cover for the first supervisor. At some point during the first year it is expected that the additional supervisor is identified, and her/his role as co- or second-supervisor is established. Only in exceptional cases will a student's primary supervisor not be a member of ID staff, but it will quite often be the case that the additional supervisor comes from outside ID and, very exceptionally, from outside the LSE. Where the second supervisor plays a back-up and covering role (i.e. not “co-supervisor), note that this individual will be prepared to meet the student at least once a term and provide advice, but the second supervisor will not necessarily be expected to read and provide detailed comments upon all the student’s draft chapters. It is up to the students to ensure that they see their supervisor(s) immediately at the beginning of the session to begin planning the year's work. Students should be meeting with, and submitting written work to, supervisors on a regular basis. Supervisors are expected to read work submitted within a reasonable period of time agreed upon with the student and provide detailed feedback and guidance for further work. Primary supervisors must make themselves available to students on a regular basis (usually once every two weeks during the first year and monthly thereafter). Students are entitled to one set of detailed written comments on each draft chapter they produce and to a set of detailed comments on the final draft of their dissertation. Staff are not expected to comment repeatedly on different drafts of the same chapter. If any conflict emerges between supervisors or any problem arises in supervision arrangements that cannot be resolved through discussion with the supervisor(s), students should go to see the Director of the Doctoral Research Programme at ID. If for any reason a student cannot deal with the problem thus, she/he should contact the Head of Department, or another member of the staff. As a matter of last recourse students can see the Dean of Graduate Studies by appointment. Supervisors will submit regular reports on their students' progress to the Doctoral Programme Director. Students in their second and third years of study, will be undertaking research, either abroad or in the UK, and writing their dissertations. While resident in London, students are expected to see their supervisors regularly and attend the Research Seminar. As mentioned above, continuing research students are expected to make at least one presentation to the Research Seminar each session. 5.5 Annual Review of Research Students Linked with the Reports mentioned in 5.4 the ID Research Committee conducts an annual review of the progress made by each Research Student. Students must satisfy their supervisors and the Research Committee that they have made substantial progress according to their personal research and writing plan in order to re-register for the next academic year. This review will usually take place toward the end of Summer Term and students may be called to meet with their supervisors and at least one member of the Research Committee who is not their supervisor to discuss their progress. If progress is deemed unsatisfactory, the Research Committee will recommend to the Graduate Office that the student not be allowed to register in the next academic year.

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5.6 Research Abroad Before students leave London for research abroad, they must discuss this in the first instance with their supervisor, who will be required to undertake a Risk Assessment exercise and to ensure that appropriate measures are in place to deal with any eventualities. This Risk Assessment also requires the student to address each of these risks in a signed statement which will be assessed by the Dean of Graduate Studies before permission is given for fieldwork. Students must apply for Leave of Absence on the appropriate form available from the Registrar's Office and gain approval from their supervisor, the Director of the Doctoral Research Programme at ID and the Dean of Graduate Students. It is up to students to ensure this is done and to ensure minimum requirements of residency are met and fees are paid in full. Students are expected to correspond regularly with their supervisors and are entitled to at least three written responses from supervisors during each full session away from the School. It is up to individual supervisors and students to work out the particular arrangements for contact while students are abroad. Writing regular reports can be a way of ensuring that students stay on track during research abroad and occasionally reflect on their overall project as outlined in their research proposal. The ID Office and the Director of the Doctoral Research Programme at ID should be informed of students' addresses and contact phone number and e-mail addresses while abroad and dates of departure and return. NB: While undertaking fieldwork, please note that you will not be covered under the School insurance policy, and students should take out their own insurance cover. See Appendix for information on your personal safety whilst undertaking fieldwork visits for your dissertation. 5.7 Ethics Committee Students should submit their proposal to the LSE Ethics Committee for approval before going into the field. 5.8 Part-time Research Students ID makes every effort to accommodate the special needs of part-time students who are having to deal with the difficult problems created by the need to do part-time work. Generally speaking, part-time students are considered to be undertaking work at half the pace of full-time students and all deadlines and requirements are extended in this way. It is hoped that part-time students can arrange to see supervisors in normal working hours, but supervisors who agree to work with part-time students realise they may have to make special arrangements outside the normal working day to see these students. 5.9 Duration of Studies and Submission of the Dissertation Students must keep their supervisors, the Research Programme Administrator and the Graduate School informed of any changes in the working title of their dissertations. The MPhil dissertation can be completed within two years. Any MPhil student who plans to register for a third year of study must seek special permission from the Research Committee before the end of their second year of study, and registration beyond this time period will generally not be allowed. The PhD dissertation can be completed in three years. At the end of the third year students will be asked to submit a Completion Timetable to Doctoral Programme Director. Any request for extension to the Maximum Period of Registration must be submitted to and approved by the School’s Research Degrees Sub-committee. Please see the School’s Regulations for Research Degrees for further details

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http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/academicRegulations/regulationsForResearchDegrees.htm The University publishes guidelines on the style and layout of theses, and students are also encouraged to consult past dissertations in the Library. Supervisors will advise their students whether final drafts are adequate for submission, but cannot, of course, guarantee the result. An oral examination ("viva") will be set after the dissertation has been submitted. It will be conducted by two examiners at least one of whom will be external to the LSE. Submission of the thesis to the Research Degrees department is the student's responsibility. The appropriate "Entry form for PhD Examination” is from the Research Degrees Unit 6. STUDENT LIVELIHOOD 6.1 Financing research studies At the time of admission, the Graduate School expects students to show evidence that they can finance their studies. Students are encouraged to consult sources, especially the "Grants Register", for specific funding that may be available. LSE PhD Scholarships: The School has a number of “full” scholarships, to both home and international students, based on academic merit for new PhD students. The Scholarships cover fees and living expenses of £14,000 each year for three years (2011/12 rates). They are available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking research in any LSE discipline, with annual renewal subject to satisfactory academic performance at the School. Scholarships will be awarded on academic merit and research potential. You do not need to make a separate application for an LSE Scholarship; the Department of International Development is allowed to nominate a limited number of candidates for these awards. To be considered for these awards you must have submitted your application, together with all transcripts, references and supporting documentation by 11th January 2013 at the latest. Successful candidates are notified by the end of March 2013. Further details ESRC Awards In 2011 the LSE was awarded the status of an ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. Students are nominated on merit for these awards. No further paperwork beyond those for a normal application is required. The deadline for the receipt of completed applications for consideration for an ESRC award is 11th January 2013. Further details LSE Research Studentship Awards These awards are only available to students who begin their MPhil/PhD programme on or before 2012/13. From 2013/14 the scheme will no longer be open to new students. Application for support under this scheme must be made in May and are assessed individually. Awards are dependent on progress and no awards will be made to students beyond their fourth year of study. Further details for all of these schemes and the dates when applications are to be submitted, can be found on the LSE’s Financial Support Office website. The LSE has limited funds available for students suffering unexpected hardships and information is available from the Financial Support Office.

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Since ID does not run an undergraduate programme, only limited possibilities exist for advanced research students to teach in the M.Sc. programme in the Department. The School requires that only those in their third year or near to completion can be considered for teaching. Students interested in teaching should inform their supervisors and the Doctoral Programme Director and are urged to contact the appropriate departments and register their names; however research students from IDs are usually given priority. Language course Fees: For those students whose research requires them to undertake a language course within the LSE’s Language Centre, ID will pay the full cost of this fee (in the first year of registration only). 6.3 Thesis Prize Theses which are recognised by the examiners as being of an exemplary standard will be considered for an ID thesis prize of £500. This is not an annual award and is made at the discretion of ID. 6.4 Conference Attendance ID holds a limited amount of funds to enable research students to give a paper at a conference. Claims to be agreed only upon confirmation of acceptance of paper and delivery of receipts. Students may also apply to the LSE Travel Fund for support in presenting conference papers. Details (LSE Login required) 6.5 Committees at ID and in the School Each Year, Research students should elect a representative for the School’s Consultative Forum for Research Students. This is a forum where students are encouraged to present their issues for discussion at School level. In addition, from September 2009 a Research Committee will meet twice a year to discuss all matters related to research at ID. Two research students will be sought to volunteer as representatives at these meetings to ensure that students’ concerns and interests are reflected in the agenda and discussions. 6.6 Social Life at ID A fairly active social life has been generated at ID by the large and interesting student body in the M.Sc. programme. Research students are encouraged to develop contacts with the M.Sc. students and participate in their activities. 6.7 Visiting Research Fellows at ID ID often has in residence at least one visiting research fellow. Where possible, these visitors are allocated space in the Department. Visiting fellows are encouraged to attend the Research Seminar and make a least one presentation during their stay at the LSE. They can often be valuable resource people for ID students. 6.8 Contact with the field of Development Studies Research students in Development Studies should become familiar with what is happening in the field as a whole. Students are encouraged to regularly consult the various journals in development studies and area studies. There are several academic associations in development and area studies which students can

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join at a reduced membership fee. These have newsletters and hold annual conferences. We also encourage students to develop contacts with other centres covering development studies in the UK, like those at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Sussex, Oxford, Leeds, East Anglia, Bath, Birmingham and Swansea. 6.9 Jobs and References The MPhil and PhD are not primarily vocational, but given the record of our M.Sc. students, a wide variety of employers are interested in the range of skills and knowledge obtained by students in development studies. There are few people who will ever know your work better than your research supervisors. You should ensure your supervisor has a copy of your c.v. on file and that you discuss your skills and aspirations. 6.10 Academic and Professional Development for PhD Students Research students are encouraged to participate in the Academic and Professional Development Programme for PhD students. This is offered by the Teaching and Learning Centre, together with colleagues from the Careers Service and Language Centre. The programme is based around the core course ‘Authoring a PhD and Developing as a Researcher,’ which covers topics from creativity in research design to preparing for the PhD viva examination. The course is organised into three strands – getting started, the middle years and the endgame – for students at different stages of their research. For more information about the programme, please visit the LSE PhD students’ portal website at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/usefulContacts/TLCPhD/Home.aspx Teaching and Learning Centre contact: Dr Sarabajaya Kumar Development advisor for PhD students Email: s.kumar3@lse.ac.uk The Teaching and Learning Centre also provides support and training for PhD students who teach, including a compulsory programme for new graduate teaching assistants who are also registered as PhD students at the school. Those students who wish to take their teaching training further should consider taking the ‘LSE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education’ (PGCertHE), a formal qualification in teaching in HE, which is externally accredited by a national body, the Higher Education Academy. For further information about the LSE PGCertHE and other TLC teaching training, please contact the TLC Departmental Manager: Email: tlc@lse.ac.uk There are a number of other training events and support networks for research students. Please see the training portal website for further details of courses and events: http://training.lse.ac.uk/ The Disability Office and Student Counselling Service are also part of the Teaching and Learning Centre, and their services are available to all PhD students. The Disability Office and Student Counselling Service are also part of the Teaching and Learning Centre, and their services are available to all PhD students. Presenting papers at conference is a crucial part of the education and professional training of PhD students. Funding is available from the Postgraduate Travel Fund to support students who wish to present their papers. Details of this fund can be accessed through the Financial Support Office website https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/studentServicesCentre/financialSupportOffice/internal/informationForPhDStudents.htm

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6.11 Careers Adviser for PhD students The LSE Careers Service has a Careers Adviser with special responsibility for PhD students, Dr Madelaine Chapman. More information and resources are available on the PhD pages of the Careers Service website: www.lse.ac.uk/careers.

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LIST OF CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENT AREAS OF RESEARCH:

Warfare, Administration and State Formation in Somaliland - Assessing Processes of State and Nation Building in the Horn of Africa Emerging Economies and the Extractive Industries in Developing Countries. The Impact of Non-traditional Investors on Governance and Development Improving Outcomes or Enhancing Disparities: The Case of Education Decentralization in Pakistan Explaining Variation in State Capacity: the case for Rwanda and Burundi Economic aspects of ground fires in the Brazilian Amazon The political economy of industrial development in West Bengal, India The Determinants of the Multilateral Response to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies Changing Policy Regimes and Economic Competitiveness: The Transformation of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Industry 1974-2002 'The use of subjective evaluation techniques: the economic evaluation of a microfinance-based poverty alleviation programme with an HIV/AIDS and gender empowerment focus Urbanization and African Development: a historical perspective with case studies of Tanzania and South Africa Urban Vulnerability to Climate Risk in Bogota, Colombia Educational outcomes in Argentina The politics of governing urbanisation in fragile states: divergent trajectories in Kampala and Kigali Foreign Capital Flows - Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries Multilateral Lending in a Borrower's Market: The Case of Latin America Capturing the externalities associated with transport infrastructure to better inform investment choices. The politics of software, government policy and development in Latin America Understanding the governance of the informal economy in Nairobi ‘How is the managerial model of social accountability operationalized at community level and why?’ Lessons from the Community Based Monitoring and Evaluation (Uganda) 'Civil Society in Uncivil Conflicts: An examination of civil society's struggle to address insecurity in South Asia’s new wars' Fighting For the Hills: a Study of the Mai-Mai militia of Eastern Congo "Civil society's participation in policy processes: A comparative study of education and social service NGOs in China". Rethinking poverty & conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental services, deforestation and social development Governance of land and natural resources in rural communities of Massingir District, Mozambique Essays on public service delivery and risk-sharing mechanisms in India Risk Measurement and Mitigation in Emerging Markets What names ethnic conflict become violent: a comparative case of Trinidad and Guyana Political Determinants of Economic Rents: The Case of the Philippines and Malaysia's Oil Palm Industry The private city: emergence of new towns in India The Effect of Taxation on Accountability in Latin America

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Life After Rape: Justice and social healing in northern Uganda Free Trade Agreements and the integration of East Asian developing economies into production networks City and State Making in India - a Case of Ahmedabad The politics of production: Philippine coconut and Colombian coffee compared The causes and dynamics of conflict and will take a quantitative focus. The impact of natural resources on conflict is one aspect of this. Oil and Transition in Russia Mobile Conflict - mobile phones, governance and human security in Pakistan Searching for solutions in Juba - Making Peace with the Lord's Resistance Army The Politics of Reform: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India Gender in Post Conflict Reconstruction in Kigali, Rwanda Governance without a State: State formation and aid dependency in Palestine Intervention, Power and legitimacy - the case of Afghanistan Deforestation versus cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon - a study of the relation between environmental conservation and economic development in the state of Rondônia after the Real Plan Looking Inside the Black Box of Institutions and Explaining their Persistence - Econometric Evidence from Missionary Activity in Venezuela Success vs. failure in local public goods provision: Council and chiefly governance in post-conflict Makeni, Sierra Leone

LIST OF COMPLETED THESES IN LAST 12 YEARS: Completed Dissertations Student: Thesis Title: Date

completed: Osgood, Diane “How can economics help set priorities for biodiversity

conservation?” 1998

Manning, Peter “The maximisation of economic benefit for Namibia from its marine fisheries resources”

1998

Nicholls, Lilly “From paradigm to practice: The politics of implementation of sustainable human development in the nineties and beyond”

1998

Reinke, Jens “Banking the unbankable: Financial innovation in South Africa”, 1998 Mutebi, F.Golooba

“Power to the people? A study of administrative reform and the re-emergence of participatory politics in Uganda

1999

Neumayer, Eric “Weak versus strong sustainability: exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms”

1999

Bennett, Sarah “Imperfect information, product diversity and markets for hospital care in developing countries: A case study of Bangkok”

1999

Ferguson, Clare “Reproductive Rights in Zimbabwe” 1999 Schelzig, Karin Concepts, Measurements and Experiences of Poverty: A Case

Study of Manila, Philippines 1999

Patil, Pawan Quantification and modelling of the poverty-environment nexus: the case of Indian coastal prawn aquaculture

1999

Verme, Paolo “The Labour Market in Times of Transition and Recession” The Case of Kazakhstan”

2000

Johnson, Craig Sustaining the State: An Institutional Analysis of Thailand’s Coastal Fisheries

2000

Vizard, Polly “Conceptualising Poverty in a Human Rights Framework: 2001

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Foundational Issues in Ethics, Economics and International Law! Kravatsky, Axel “The use of Multiple criteria decision analysis for the development

of adaptive fishery management strategies: the case of the Danube Delta Bisophere Reserve”

2001

Carbone, Giovanni

“No-party democracy? Political organisation under movement democracy in Uganda, 1994-2000”

2001

Togo, Eriko Trade liberalization and industrial performance: The case of the apparel industry in Peru in the 1990s

2001

Mathuer, Inke Institutional pluralism and inter-organisational relations in local health care provision in Uganda: Institutional pathologies or healing organisations

2001

Chakrabarti, Indranil

“Provision of Health and Education to marginalized communities in the context of panchayat reforms”

2001

Faguet, Jean-Paul

“Decentralization and the optimal provision of local public goods” 2001

Nazami, Ceema Employment and Welfare in Transition: The case of the Kyrgyz Republic - Diana to take on supervision

2001

Aeria, Andrew “Politicians, Business Networks and Human Development in Sarawak, 1981-1997”

2002

Asthana, Roli The political economy of structural adjustment: Labour market flexibility, investment behaviour and the 'Exit Policy' in India

2002

Folster, Natalie “Systemic Determinants of Aid Policy: The history of Canadian ODA to Tanzania”

2002

Pickup, Francine Household Level Responses to New Market Forces in the Industrial Urals: the Dimensions of Gender and Generation

2002

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra

Structural change in the Indian economy: An Inquiry into the causes of regional disparities in growth rates across Indian States

2002

Hartmann, Betsy The Greening of Security: Gender, Population and the Politics of Exclusion

2003

Dieter Zinnbauer

IT and Civil Society in Malaysia 2003

Silva, Luis Mah State, Business Associations and Economic Policymaking in South Korea: The Case of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI)

2004

Marriage, Zoe Humanitarian Assistance in Countries in Conflict 2004 Schonleitner, Gunther

Local State and Civil Society Relations: Participatory Governance 2004

Yiyi Lu The Functioning and Dysfunctioning of NGO’s in Transitional China: Change and Continuity in State-Society Relations

2005

Wrangham, Rachel

Negotiating Meaning and Practice in the Zambezia Agricultural Development Project, Mozambique

2005

Sharif, Iffath Banking on Social Capital for Household Welfare: Evidence from the Samurdhi Programme in Sri Lanka

2005

Green, Elliott The politics of Ethno nationalism in Contemporary Uganda: The Case of Buganda

2005

Ngo, Thi Minh Gains and losses from decollectivisation in Vietnam: land redistribution, agricultural growth and rural poverty (1992-1998)

2005

Jones, Benjamin Local-level politics in Uganda: Institutional landscapes at the margins of the state

2005

Dolan, Christopher

Understanding War and its Continuation: The Case of Northern Uganda

2006

Alejandro Natal Martinez Gonzalez

Effective People’s Participation: How and When: A Case Study of Pronasol Programme in Mexico

2006

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Flejzor, Lauren

Explaining Strategic change in International Organisations 2006

Woll, Bettina

The Ownership Paradox: The Politics of Development Cooperation with Bolivia and Ghana

2006

Lakshman, Narayan

The Political Economy of Resource Allocation by the State in India: An Inter-State Comparison of Public Policy and Distributional Outcomes for the Poor

2006

Hassan, Mohammed

Conflicts and Development in North East India

2006

Miller, Stuart Household Responses to Covariate Risk: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch

2007

Lyngdoh, Bremley

Governance of Forest Resources and Sustainable Livelihoods: An analysis of the effects of the Supreme Court logging ban on rural household strategies in Meghalaya, India

2007

Liverani, Andrea The political economy of associational life in contemporary Algeria 2007 Karapinar, Baris Rural Transformation in Turkey 2007 Diaz, Hector Manuel

Rural Elite and Peasant Strategies in the Restructuring of the Coffee Market in Veracruz, Mexico, 1989-1996.

2007

Fischer, Andrew A Theory of Polarisation, Exclusion and Conflict within Disempowered Development: The case of contemporary transformations in the Tibetan areas of Western China

2007

Jensen, Olivia Cooperation and Opportunism under Long-Term Public-Private Contracts: Evidence from Water Concessions in Asia

2007

Esser, Daniel Post War Local States? Decoding Politics In, From and On Freetown and Kabul

2007

Abirafeh, Lina Violence Against Women in Post-Conflict Contexts: Forms, Rationale, Significance

2008

Khamis, Melanie An empirical investigation of the informal labour market, minimum wages and workfare programmes at times of growth and crisis in urban Argentina, 1992-2005

2008

Ciravegna, Luciano

Collaboration in the Costa Rican electronic cluster 2008

Sijapati, Bimbika Gender, Institutions & Development in Natural Resource Governance: A Study of Community Forestry in Nepal

2008

Shakya, Mallika Culture and Entrepreneurship in Nepal 2008 Nicole Stremlau The Press and Consolidation of power in Ethiopia and Uganda 2008 Jas Ellis Fertility Decisions 2009 McDoom, Omar Why Men Kill: Security, Authority and Opportunity in Rwanda's

Genocide 2009

Earle, Lucy Occupying the illegal city: Housing movements and citizenship in Sao Paulo, Brazil

2009

Zorbas, Eugenia Reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda: Discourse and Practice

2009

Vargas, Gonzalo Explaining violence against civilians: Insurgency, counterinsurgency and crime in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia (1996-2004)’.

2010

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Leiteritz, Ralf Sustaining Open Capital Accounts. International Norms and Domestic Institutions: A Comparison between Peru and Colombia

2010

Staschen, Stefan Regulatory Impact Assessment in Microfinance - The Case of Uganda

2010

Nilotpal, Kumar Farmers Suicide in India; Issues and livelihood, agrarian transition and well-being.

2010

Lindemann, Stefan

Do inclusive elite bargains matter? Understanding trajectories of civil war vs. political stability in Uganda and Zambia.

2010

Lindemann, Stefan

Do inclusive elite bargains matter? Understanding trajectories of civil war vs. political stability in Uganda and Zambia.

2010

Shami, Mahvish The road to development: the political economy of market exposure

2011

Wietzke, Borg Measuring Institutional Accountability - the case of qualitative and quantitative methods

2011

Ayers, Jessica Understanding the Adaptation paradox: Can Global Climate Change Adaptation Policy by Locally inclusive?

2011

Atkinson, Philippa

Stationary and Roving Banditry: An alternative Historical Perspective on the Liberian Conflict

2011

Wigell, Mikael Governing the Poor: the Transformation of Social Governance in Argentina and Chile

2011

Lara, Francisco Jnr

“Insurgents, Clans, and States: Political Legitimacy and Resurgent Conflict in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines”

2011

Elgert, Laureen The Politics of Evidence: Expertise and Deliberation in Sustainable Development Policy Towards Deliberative Sustainability?

2011

Polzer, Tara Negotiating Belonging: the integration of Mozambican refugees in South Africa

2012

Pragasam, Nirad Civil War, Civilian Population - Sri Lanka 2012 Priyam, Manisha Investigating Educational Reforms in two Indian States 2012

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Professor in Development Anthropology Director, Justice and Security Research Programme Head of Department

CON712 Tel: 020 7955 6430

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Lecturer in Political Economy of Development CON810 Tel: 020 7955 7455

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Emeritus Professor Email: e.a.brett@lse.ac.uk

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Professor David Keen

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CON803 Tel: 020 7955 6743 Email: j.putzel@lse.ac.uk

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