Challenging the Investment Climate Paradigm: governance, investment and poverty reduction in Vietnam
Principal Investigator: Hubert Schmitz. Lead Organisation: Institute of Developmet Studies
Co-investigators: Edmund James Malesky; Thang Nguyen; HANG PHAM; Neil McCulloch Tuan Dau Anh
This project examines a key assumption which underlies one of the main approaches to poverty reduction currently advocated and practised by many international development agencies.

Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India
Principal Investigator: Glyn Owain Williams. Lead Organisation: University of Sheffied
Decentralisation and the changing geographies of political marginalisation in Kerala
The politics of defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala
The disciplining effects of impact evaluation practices: negotiating the pressures of impact within an ESRC-DFID project
Performing Participatory Citizenship - Politics and Power in Kerala'sKudumbashreeProgramme
