Theses - Centre of Development Studies
About this collection
Recent Submissions
-
The Potential of Watershed Development for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihood: Three Essays from the Semi-arid Regions of India
(2020-01-25)The Watershed Development Programme has gained growing support among development policy planners since the 1980s in India. This programme is designed to facilitate sustainable rural development by building irrigation ... -
Collateral effects of securities enforcement in emerging financial markets: Evidence from MSCI-LATAM countries
(2019-07-20)Financial authorities have traditionally relied on fines, suspensions, and bars to discipline misconduct in financial markets and, in that way, protect public investors and promote financial development. In theory, these ... -
Building the 'Sri Lankan nation' through education: The identity politics of teaching history in a multicultural post-war society
(2019-07-19)Abstract Driven by the overarching objective of promoting reconciliation through education, this thesis strives to unpack the first national goal of education set out by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Education, which involves ... -
Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
The role of inequality in development has been the subject of long-standing debates in academic and policy circles. Notwithstanding disagreements about exactly how the two are linked, conventional wisdom agrees that ...
