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Tracing Down Real Socio-Economic Trends From Household Data With Erratic Sampling Frames: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom

“…By means of the latest seven national household surveys of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article uncovers the very volatile sampling frame used…”
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REAL GOVERNANCE BEYOND THE 'FAILED STATE': NEGOTIATING EDUCATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO by Titeca, Kristof, De Herdt, Tom

“…In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the state administration has retreated from much of the public domain. The specific case of the education sector — a…”
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Regulation, Cross-border Trade and Practical Norms in West Nile, North-Western Uganda by Titeca, Kristof, Herdt, Tom de

“…This article describes how cross-border trade in West Nile, north-western Uganda to a large extent takes place outside of the legal framework. This does not…”
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Poverty Lines as Context Deflators: A Method to Account for Regional Diversity with Application to the Democratic Republic of Congo by Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom

“…This paper proposes a particular methodology to render budget data more comparable over highly diverse regions. More specifically, a set of regional poverty…”
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Make Schools, Not War? Donors' Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC by De Herdt, Tom, Titeca, Kristof, Wagemakers, Inge

“…The school being one of the most important ‘faces’ of the state at the local level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, investment in education can play an…”
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Democracy & the money machine in Zaire by De Herdt, Tom

“…Whether or not Mitterand's famous thesis that 'there can be no democracy without development and no development without democracy' 1 is correct, Zaire during…”
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Reliable, challenging or misleading? A qualitative account of the most recent national surveys and country statistics in the DRC by Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom

“…Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the national information architecture in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1970 and…”
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Cooperation and fairness: the flood-Dresher experiment revisited by De Herdt, Tom

“…In this paper we set out to deepen our understanding of the importance of fairness in decision-making within the context of Prisoners' Dilemma games. A review…”
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God and Caesar in the Democratic Republic of Congo: negotiating church-state relations through the management of school fees in Kinshasa's Catholic schools by Titeca, Kristof, De Herdt, Tom, Wagemakers, Inge

“…This article argues that state (re)construction and functioning involves negotiated governance between both state and non-state actors, in which power…”
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Poverty reduction as a local institutional process by Bastiaensen, Johan, Herdt, Tom De, D’Exelle, Ben

“…Poverty can be related to institutions in different ways, depending on how we define the two concepts. Here, we adopt a social-constructivist view that focuses…”
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Capabilities in Place: Locating Poverty and Affluence in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) by De Herdt, Tom, Marivoet, Wim

“…We argue that the capability approach can be very helpful in exploring the links between poverty and place, thereby providing a more accurate understanding of…”
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The reinvention of the market from below: the end of the women's money changing monopoly in Kinshasa by De Herdt, Tom, Marysse, Stefaan

“…Zaïre's transition to the Third Republic (1990-1997) was characterised by the decline of the national currency and the economy's partial dollarisation. This…”
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Political Transition in DRC: How Did Kinshasa Households Fare? by De Herdt, Tom, Marivoet, Wim, Marysse, Stefaan

“…:  Officially announced on 24 April 1990, the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would eventually culminate in presidential…”
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What Happens with Household Assets during Economic Collapse? The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1975-2010) by Marivoet, Wim, De Herdt, Tom

“…Many Congolese seem to have withstood their country's protracted economic crisis relatively well, despite its length and severity. This study analyses whether…”
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Aid as an encounter at the interface: the complexity of the global fight against poverty by De Herdt, Tom, Bastiaensen, Johan

“…International development discourse has recently shifted its focus from top-down economic adjustment to participative anti-poverty policy. This shift hints at…”
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Economic Action and Social Structure: 'Cambisme' in Kinshasa by De Herdt, Tom

“…In the recent literature on institutions and social capital, there has been a renewed emphasis on the importance of social structure in explaining the…”
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Governance with Empty Pockets: The Education Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo by De Herdt, Tom, Titeca, Kristof

“…ABSTRACT The education sector has virtually disappeared from the Congolese state budget since the mid‐1980s. Yet schools have both managed to survive on school…”
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Is informalization equalizing? Evidence from Kinshasa (DRC) by De Herdt, Tom, Marivoet, Wim

“…As a consequence of a concatenation of external and internal events, the economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has informalized to an…”
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Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo by Moshonas, Stylianos, de Herdt, Tom, Titeca, Kristof, Balungwe Shamavu, Paulin

“…ABSTRACT This paper examines the sources of bureaucratic fragmentation and coherence in the Democratic Republic of Congo by exploring the connections and…”
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Development anthropology and social engineering: a plea for critical reformism by De Herdt, Tom, Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre

“…While ethnographic research can be carried out from a variety of political positionings, we plead for a 'critical reformist' stance, on the intersection of…”
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