London School of Economics

A wide range of work is being carried out in Africa, Latin America and Asia on issues relating to Institutional and Policy Reform, with a strong emphasis on problems associated with the need to strengthen the incentives and accountability mechanisms that generate effective as opposed to ineffective results. Our work emphasises the interactions between political, economic and social variables and is strongly grounded in a detailed understanding of the importance of historical processes and the significance of local contexts in explaining developmental outcomes.

Contact Details
Prof John Harriss
Email: j.harriss@lse.ac.uk
Phone: 44 (0) 20 7955 6235
Fax: 44 (0) 20 7955 6844

Dr Tim Allen

Complex Emergencies; Ethnic Conflict; Media reporting of war; Forced migration; Local conceptions of Health and Healing; East Africa, especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya; Development/Aid Agencies; Ethics of Aid

Dr Jo Beall

Formal and informal institutions in urban politics and local governance; rights-based approaches to governance and social development; the management of social change; environment and development; political and economic sociology

Dr Teddy Brett

The problem of governance; the role of international institutions and economic reform in Uganda and Somalia. He is also working on problems of crisis and reconstruction in Southern Africa and especially in Zimbabwe.

Jonathan DiJohn

Development economics; institutional economics; political economy of institutions; economic history, politics and development in latin America, especially in relation to Venezuela.

Professor Tim Dyson

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

Political economy; public economics; decentralization; local government effectiveness, and the economics and politics of Latin America, especially Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina and Chile.

Dr Tim Forsyth

Public-private co-operation and devolved governance in climate change policy; science-policy and environmental social movements; deliberative and inclusionary environmental policy processes in developing countries.

Dr Elizabeth Francis

Sub-Saharan Africa (especially kenya and South Africa); Sociology of development, rural development, gender and social change; migration; land tenure and land reform; post-conflict reconstruction in South Africa; local politics and local institutions.

Dr Markus Goldstein

Poverty; targeted social programmes; household/gender econoics; labour markets; economic reform; small householder agricultur and natural resource management with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor John Harriss

The social history and political economy of India; social capital and civil society; social and political aspects of globalisation; economic sociology, political sociology and political anthropology.

Dr David Keen

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 Jenny Kuper

International law relating to children in armed conflict; international human rights law; humanitarian law; children's rights; and the United Nations law and policy.

Dr James Putzel

Institutional study of Philippine business; politics of the environment; agrarian reform; rural development and change; politics and development in Southeast Asia.

Dr Dennis Rodgers

Violence, insecurity and crime; the international drugs trade; crisis and social breakdown; poverty and inequality; political demobilization; urban anthropology.

Professor Ashwani Saith

Globalisation and poverty; accumulation regimes and migration circuits; longitudinal analysis of agrarian change; transition and reform processes in Asia (especially China and India).

Dr Purna Sen

Violence against women - human rights; international advocacy and socio-legal frameworks; refugee/immigrant/migrant women; culture and diversity; social policy and social development. Specialisms include India, Middle East (Jordan), north Africa (Morocco)

Dr Kenneth Shadlen

International institutions and changing opportunities for industrial transformation and poverty reduction in the developing world; intellectual property rights and development; the politics of international debt and finance; the international and domestic

Professor Robert Hunter Wade

Globalisation, world poverty and income inequality; capitalism; capital markets and financial crises; the international regimes of ICT's; Industrial and technology policies; East Asia; multilaterial organisations (especially the World Bank and WTO); the p

Dr Diana Weinhold

Growth and development; applied econometrics and environmental economics.