Community Development:

Vijayendra Rao, "Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia," Chapter 10 in Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray (edited) The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008

Saumitra Jha, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, "Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums," World Development, (forthcoming), 2006

Vijayendra Rao and Ana Maria Ibanez, “The Social Impact of Social Funds In Jamaica: A "Participatory Econometric" Analysis of Participation, Targeting, and Collective Action in Community-Driven Development, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41, Number 5, Pp: 788-838, July 2005

Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao, “Community Based (and Driven) Development: A Critical Review,” The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 19, no. 1 (2004), pp. 1-39

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, “Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Program Evaluation,” Chapter 8 in Francois Bourguignon and Luiz A. Pereira da Silva (editors), The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004.