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Table of contents

Unfair Trade: The causes of unequal profit distribution within commodity chains

Lazar Konforti

Multi-Actor Participation in Local Development: The ‘Rise And Decline’ of Harambee policy in Kenya

Raphael Ngatia Kanothi

A Free Press and Democracy Serve Better to Prevent Famines Than Strategies Aimed at Raising Agricultural Production

Silvia Forno

Beyond the ‘Poverty Question’: Reflections on De la Rocha’s ‘Resources of Poverty’ and ‘Poverty of Resources’ Models

Kaira Zoe Kintanar Alburo

Whose Land, Whose Control?: Women’s Land Rights in a Market-Oriented and Gendered Environment

Maria Lisa Trajano Alano

Poverty Reduction Programmes in Rural El Salvador

Juan Baltasar Mejia Delgado

Men as Partners’ ‘Ecological Approach’ to Violence Against Women: A Means of Addressing Sexual Violence Among Black Youth in Low-Income South African Communities?

Lara Jean Cousins

Two Cases of Smallholder Agriculture Development: Implications for Public Action from Spain and Peru

Lazar Konforti

In Defence of Neo-Liberal Incrementalism: The Case of Groundwater Markets in Bihar, India

Amrita Sharma

Deregulation and the Global Market Revolution: Counter-narratives and counter-arguments

Juan Baltasar Mejia Delgado

Discourse Analysis of an Interview: Vandana Shiva on Farmers Suicides, the U.S.–India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India and More

Silvia Forno

Regulating Party Finance to Stem Political Corruption : The Case of Serbia

Mladen Joksic

Implementation of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa’s Economy

Karoline Kemp

Why is SAARC not working? An analysis of the regionalism project of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Manisha Gunasekera

Sector Wide Approach: The Case of Health Sector in Ethiopia

Kassa Teshager Alemu

Are Civil Society Actors a Source for Counter-Hegemonic Challenge?

Lazar Konforti

Small Loans Big Talks: Household Diplomacy, Responsibility and Control: Income Access and Women’s Agency in Bangladesh

Tania Haque

Behind the Veil of Culture: Construction of the Western ‘Self’ through the Muslim ‘Other’

Kaira Zoe Kintanar Alburo