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Bergius, M., Benjaminsen, T. A., & Widgren, M. (2018). Green economy, Scandinavian investments and agricultural modernization in Tanzania. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(4), 825–852. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1080/03066150.2016.1260554

Buseth, J. T. (2017). The green economy in Tanzania: From global discourses to institutionalization. Geoforum, 86, 42-52 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.08.015

Chant, S. Re-thinking the “Feminization of poverty” in relation to aggregate Gender Indices. Journal of human development. Vol 7, no. 2. 201-220. 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649880600768538

Hesselberg, J. 2010. Becoming poor in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Geography Vol. 7(1), 2015 Pages 97 – 108. 12 pages. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjg/article/viewFile/126293/115810

Hesselberg, J. & J.A. Yaro. 2006. An assessment of the extent and causes of food insecurity in northern Ghana using a livelihood vulnerability framework. GeoJournal, Vol. 67. 41-55. 15 pages. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-006-9007-2  

Holmen, H. 2015. Is land grabbing always what it is supposed to be? Large-scale land investments in sub-Saharan Africa. Development Policy Review, 2015, 1-22. 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12118

ILO. 2017. World social protection report 2017-2019. Geneva. 215 pages. https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_604882/lang--en/index.htm

Jensen, Kari B. 2013a. “Child slavery and the fish processing industry in Bangladesh”. Focus on Geography, Vol. 56 (2), pp. 54-65. 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/foge.12012

Jensen, Kari B. 2015a. “Female Child Domestic Workers' Limited Agency: Working and Living in the Private Homes of Employers in Bangladesh”. In: Freeman, C. and Tranter, P. (eds) Risk, protection, provision and policy, Vol. 12 in Skelton, T. (editor-in-chief) Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer, Singapore. 16 pages. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-287-035-3_2.pdf

 Jensen, Kari B. 2015b. “Learning Skills, Building Social Capital, and Getting an Education: Actual and Potential Advantages of Child Domestic Work in Bangladesh.” In: Abebe, T. and Waters, J. (eds) Work and education—labouring and learning, Vol. 10 in Skelton, T. (editor-in-chief) Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer, Singapore. 22 pages. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-287-032-2_7.pdf

Jensen, Kari B. 2020. “Colorism in Bangladeshi Society”. Focus on Geography, Vol. 63(2). 7 pages. http://www.focusongeography.org/publications/articles/bangladeshi/index.html

Koch, S. 2015. From Poverty Reduction to Mutual Interests? The debate on Differentiation in EU Development Policy. Development policy review 33 (4) 479-502. 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12119

McKay, J. Ch. 2: Reassessing Development Theory: Modernization and Beyond, in Kingsbury, D et al. Key Issues in Development 2004, 45-66. 22 pages. https://astro.temple.edu/~alistair/McKayReassessingDevelopmentTheory.PDF.PDF

Narayanan, S. 2011. A case for reframing the cash transfer debate in India. Economic and Political Weekly, May 21, Vol. 46, No. 21. 41-48. 8 pages. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23017224

Roelen, K., Longhurst, D. & R. Sabates-Wheeler. 2018. The role of cash transfers in social protection, humanitarian response and shock-responsive social protection. IDS Working Paper, No. 517. 3-26. 24 pages. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/14081/Wp517_Online.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Stewart, F., Ranis, G. & E. Samman. 2018.  Advancing human development. Theory and practice, p 1-25. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 25 pages.

Tanle, A. 2015. Towards an integrated framework for analysing the links between migration and livelihoods. Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 69, No. 5. 257-264.18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1087422

UNCTAD. 2018. The least developed countries report 2018. Entrepreneurship for structural transformation. Beyond business as usual. Geneva. 170 pages. https://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=2280

UNDP. 2019. Human Development Report 2019. Beyond income, beyond
averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st
century. New York. 350 pages http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2019.pdf

World Bank. 2018a. Piecing together the poverty puzzle. Poverty and shared prosperity. Washington DC. 195 pages. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/30418/9781464813306.pdf

World Bank. 2018b. The state of social safety nets. Washington DC. 185 pages. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29115

Yanguas, P. 2018. Why we lie about aid. Development and the messy politics of change, p.1-18. Zed, London. 18 pages.

Yaro, J.A. & J. Hesselberg (eds). 2016a. Adaptation to climate change and variability in rural West Africa, pp. 147-170. Springer International, Switzerland. 24 pages.

Yaro, J.A. & J. Hesselberg (eds). 2016b. Adaptation to climate change and variability in rural West Africa, pp. 239-244 Springer International, Switzerland. 16 pages.

 

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