ANTHONY BEBBINGTON is Professor in the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. A geographer by training, he was previously Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, USA, and has worked at the World Bank, Overseas Development Institute, International Institute for Environment and Development and the University of Cambridge, UK. WILLY MCCOURT is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. He has carried out research and consultancy

• Preface Introduction: A Framework For Understanding Development Success; W.McCourt & A.Bebbington Political Competition Can Be Positive: Embedding Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil; M. Melo Managing The Indonesian Economy: Good Policies, Weak Institutions; B.Hofman When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial And Education Policies In Latin America; M.Grindle Why Has Microfinance Been A Policy Success In Bangladesh?; D.Hulme & K.Moore Behind 'Win-Win' - Politics, Interests And Ideologies In Successful Subsidized Housing Developments; D.Mitlin Realizing Health Rights In Brazil: The Micropolitics Of Sustaining Health System Reform; A.Shankland & A.Cornwall The 'Nampula Model': A Mozambique Case Of Successful Participatory Planning And Financing; D.Jackson Explaining (And Obtaining) Development Success; A.Bebbington & W.McCourt Bibliography Index