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The targeting effectiveness of social transfers (2017)
Journal Article
Devereux, S., Masset, E., Sabates-Wheeler, R., Samson, M., Rivas, A.-M., & te Lintelo, D. (2017). The targeting effectiveness of social transfers. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 9(2), 162-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2017.1305981

Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible for social transfers and those who are ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include means tests, proxy means tests, categorical, geographic, community-ba... Read More about The targeting effectiveness of social transfers.

The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-Builders (2017)
Journal Article
Yankson, P., Asiedu, A., Owusu, K., Urban, F., & Siciliano, G. (2017). The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-Builders. Development Policy Review, 36(S1), 0476-0494. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12259

Emerging issues from the Bui hydropower project suggest that the experiences of two earlier hydropower projects in Ghana failed to prevent challenges related to resource access and livelihoods. This article examines the nature of the challenges, thei... Read More about The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-Builders.

The political economy machinery: toward a critical anthropology of development as a contested capitalist practice (2017)
Journal Article
Neveling, P. The political economy machinery: toward a critical anthropology of development as a contested capitalist practice. Dialectical Anthropology, 41(2), 163-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-017-9450-0

This article discusses anthropology’s current mainstream understandings of development and offers a historical materialist alternative. According to these, development was and is either a discourse-backed anti-politics machine that strengthens the po... Read More about The political economy machinery: toward a critical anthropology of development as a contested capitalist practice.