OVERALL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Development
Agrarian Change in S.Asia
Irrigation and Water Management
Urban Livelihoods
Social Policy in Development Contexts

Countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan

See also Directory of Expertise

SELECTED RESEARCH REPORTS

Concepts and Themes: Landscaping Social Development (PDF file)
Desperately Seeking Security (PDF file)
Embedding Social Policy in the Search for Security (PDF file)

Prisoners and Escapees (PDF file)
Financing Poverty Eradication (From: Second Generation Microfinance: Supervision, Regulation and Challenges Edited by I.Sharif and Geof Wood University Press Ltd. Dhaka 2001)

Chapters in Books

Wood, G. D. (2001). Financing Poverty Eradication: Towards New Frontiers. In: Sharif, I. and Wood, G. D. (eds.) Challenges to Second Generation Microfinance: Supervision, Regulation and Resource Mobilisation. Dhaka: UPL.

Wood, G. D. (2003). Governance and the Common Man: Embedding Social Policy in the Search for Security. In: Mosley, P. and Dowler, E. (eds.) Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South: Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction. London: Routledge.

Wood, G. D. (2004). Informal Security Regimes: the strength of relationships. In: Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wood, G. D. and Gough, I. R. (2004). Introduction. In: Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wood, G. D. and Gough, I. R. (2004). Conclusion: Rethinking Social Policy in Development Contexts. In: Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Wood, G. D. (2003). Environment and Collective Action Under Threat: Tales from the Hindukush. In: Winnett, A. B. and Warhust, A. (eds.) Towards An Environment Research Agenda: A Second Selection of Papers. Palgrave Macmillan

Journal Publication

Wood, G. D. (2003). Staying Secure, Staying Poor: The "Faustian Bargain". World Development, 31 (3), 455-471

SD Scope Project
Papers catalogued on the DFID web server
(freely downloadable in PDF format)

Social Policy in Development Contexts Project
http://www.bath.ac.uk/ifipa/spd.htm

Clash of Civilisations or Clash of Barbarisms? Lecture for Bath UNA Meeting, BRSLI, 27.2.06
(freely downloadable in PDF format)

STUDY MATERIALS

Geof Wood is now Dean of the Faculty (1 Aug 2005), but will retain a work station in the WeD suite, and continue to be research active and supervise PhD students for the Department of Economics and International Development.

Last updated 2 March, 2006

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