The Politics of Inclusive Development Interrogating the Evidence

Sam Hickey, Professor of Politics and Development, IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester,Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics, IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester,Badru Bukenya, Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development. He is the joint Director of Research within the DFID-funded Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute. His research examines the politics of development and poverty reduction, with specific reference to sub-Saharan Africa, and has been has published extensively in the leading development studies journals. This includes work on natural resource governance, social exclusion and adverse incorporation, citizenship and participation, social movements and NGOs, the politics of social protection, and the use of political analysis in international development.


Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute. His research is on the political economy determinants of inclusive development, particularly within the DFID-UK funded Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, based in the University of Manchester, of which he is the Joint Research Director. Professor Sen's most recent books are State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India (Routledge 2012) and Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing (Routledge 2008). He has also published over 60 articles in leading economics and development journals and won the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications


Badru Bukenya is a development analyst and practitioner. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and he worked as a Research Associate with the Effective States and Inclusive Development Centre (ESID), both at the University of Manchester. He is a lecturer in the department of Social Work and Social Administration at Makerere University Kampala. He has previously worked with Uganda's largest NGO called The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO). His research focuses on the politics of civil society, service delivery, social protection, state building, and citizenship formation in Africa.

Foreword, David Hulme
Part I: Introduction
1. Exploring the politics of inclusive development: towards a new conceptual approach, Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya
Part II: The Politics of Accumulation and Growth
2. The Political Determinants of Economic Growth: An Analytical Review, Kunal Sen
3. The Politics of What Works for the Poor in Public Expenditure and Taxation, Paul Mosley
4. Governing Natural Resources for Inclusive Development, Anthony Bebbington
Part III: The Politics of Social and Legal Citizenship: Promoting and Protecting the Rights of the Poor?
5. The Politics of What Works in Service Delivery, Claire Mcloughlin
6. Political Factors in the Growth of Social Assistance, Armando Barrientos and Sony Pellissery
7. The Politics and Process of Rule of Law Systems in Developmental States, Deval Desai and Michael Woolcock
Part IV: The Politics of Recognition
8. The Gendered Politics of Securing Inclusive Development, Sohela Nazneen and Simeen Mahmud
9. Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development: Reconsidering Causal Connections, Prerna Singh and Matthias vom Hau
Part V: The Transnational Politics of Development
10. The Politics of Aid Revisited: A Review of Evidence on State Capacity and Elite Commitment, Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam
11. China in Africa: Impacts and Prospects for Accountable Development, Giles Mohan