Recent studies suggest that the growth of financial sector depth and access can drive poverty reduction and economic growth, popularizing the idea that financial development can be used as a development tool. Combined with a growing awareness in the West of Islamic taboos agains…
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Indonesia is experiencing a reemergence of economic nationalism in recent national development policy. Agriculture and trade, in particular, are sectors targeted by recent protectionist legislation. This study explores this phenomena, combining qualitative methods and a politica…
This dissertation is an analysis of how the city of Kabul is being planned. This study addresses a gap in planning scholarship, which rarely focuses on the planning of cities in "developing" countries. Kabul is uniquely important in the geopolitics of security; and at the same t…
The world changed, in a multitude of ways, the day of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. The impact of this day reverberates beyond the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States has engaged in a controversial a…
The primary focus of this work is on Nigeria, and why all attempts at economic development since gaining independence from Britain have failed to place its economy on a sustainable trajectory of growth. The operational thesis adduced is that development was, and continues to be …
My dissertation is based on oral history and archival research in Guinea Bissau and Senegal. My work contributes to the historical approaches to gender, modernity and development, especially in regards to research methodologies. My research approach allows women informants to br…
The town of St. Katherine is located in the mountainous and most water rich region of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This relative water abundance was a critical factor to the historical and cultural landscape that emerged there over the centuries. Past human settlements have left an …
In this dissertation I investigate the historical, institutional, and cultural roots of different regional development trajectories in modern Turkey. Historical comparison of two similar cities of 1920's, namely Kutahya and Kayseri, enabled me to solve the Anatolian Tigers Puzzl…
Households from the rural areas of developing countries often lack many markets of interest, leading them often to tradeoff their long-run wellbeing for short-run survival priorities. Such situations create pressures on the limited volumes of natural resources available to them,…
This dissertation examines how, why, and to what effect private voluntary organizations (PVOs) partnered with the U.S. federal government on projects aimed at fighting overseas hunger, disease, and poverty. Detailing the period between World War II and the passage of the 1973 Fo…
Gender and development is a primary goal in international development policy, and the status of women and girls is so important to the development agenda that the United Nations explicitly stated gender equality as its third Millennium Development Goal (UNDP 2010). Despite its i…
The issue of the resource curse has been central to the academic debate since the 1990s. In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of the importance of this topic because of the discoveries of oil, natural gas, and other point source resources in several developing countri…
There have been many studies conducted on the topic of Idir – a self-help traditional association in Ethiopia that supports families financially, materially and emotionally in a time of bereavement. The origins have been debated and how it will evolve in the coming decades has b…
This dissertation examines two distinct but interrelated processes of displacement experienced by the evictees of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, based on fieldwork (2004–2005) in the Tambacounda region of South-Eastern Senegal. While the first process concerns centralized mass …
This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter is dealing with microfinance's interest rates. Microfinance institutions' (MFIs) high interest rates have been at the center of controversy from the beginning of microfinance. One plausible and widely accepted theory,…
Girls' education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co…
As a region, sub-Saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in both human development and economic growth. However, a portion of the development literature suggests that institutions may play a role in explaining, and perhaps changing, the outcomes that are observed in the…
Social science discourses on migration and development emphasize migrants' altruism or self-interest as the determinants of their remitting practices, which is countered by alternative explanations focusing on social culture and structure. Due to the dichotomy of structure/agenc…
For many scholars and politicians, Somalia is a premier example of anarchy, having been without a central government since 1991 and has been described as "a failure amongst failed states". Somalia's statelessness and the ongoing conflict has been explained as being due to Somali…