Research Focus

The questions this practice returns to.

Each area collects the publications, essays and field work that belong to it.

Research Focus

8 threads, one question.

How does development spending actually change the lives of the people it is meant to serve — and how would we know?

Translating district-level evidence into implementable recommendations for state and national programmes.

Agency, voice and household decision-making inside collectivised rural settings.

Land, labour, credit and the local institutions that mediate access to all three.

Endline designs that measure institutional change rather than expenditure alone.

Where mandated corporate spending lands, why it lands there, and what it displaces.

Measurement systems that programme staff can realistically maintain in the field.

Community organisation as a discipline with its own evidentiary standards.

Inclusion, redistribution and the political economy of programme design.