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J. Allister McGregor - Team Leader

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction
T: +44 (0)1273 915646
E: j.a.mcgregor@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Deborah Shenton

Thematic Expertise:
Climate Change; Conflict and Security; Conflict Violence and Development; MDGs and Post 2015; Poverty Inequality and Wellbeing; Urban Poverty; Social Protection; Urbanisation.

Geographic Expertise:
Bangladesh; India; Thailand.

Professor J.Allister McGregor uses his background in economics and anthropology to study the ways that systems of governance and the formulation and implementation of development policies impact upon poor people. His most recent work has been on conceptualising and then operationalising a social conception of wellbeing both as a way of critically analysing the persistence of poverty and as a means of re-evaluating development policy and practice.

He is currently using the wellbeing to framework in the ongoing study of fishing communities in South and Southeast Asia, where there are conflicts between conservation and poverty policy objectives. He has a programme of research collaboration with colleagues in Thailand and has a particular interest in the nature of development processes in that country.

Previous projects include: WeD; Norwegian Aid Evaluation; REME; Inland Fisheries

Building Sustainable Governance
The purpose of the BSG is to bring together a range of scientific, policy and political actors involved in the fisheries sector in South Asia to explore the extent to which they are able, and interested, to participate in deliberative policy networks.

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Crisis Watch
Crisis Watch is a global network of researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in monitoring the on-the-ground impacts of the financial crisis.

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Impact of the Economic Crisis on women and children in Zambia
The Government of Zambia has initiated a study to look at the affects of the financial crisis on women and children in Zambia.

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Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability of Fishing Communities in the Face of the World Fisheries Crisis

This project is a response to the initial DFID-ESRC 'Resource scarcity, growth, and poverty reduction' call and it is titled "Tangled in their (own) safety-nets?: Resilience, adaptability, and transformability of fishing communities in the face of the World fisheries crisis.

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Social Cash Transfer Programme Zambia
The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at IDS are currently working on this large scale study, which provides an opportunity to carry out work systematically on under-researched aspects of social protection delivery and impact.

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The Bellagio Initiative
The Bellagio Initiative is a series of global consultations that aims to explore trends and opportunities in philanthropy and development.

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Voices of the Vulnerable
IDS were commissioned by the UN to carry out background research to produce the UN Secretary-General's second report on the impacts of the ongoing economic crisis on vulnerable populations in developing countries.

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Time to Reimagine Development

 IDS Bulletin 42.5 (2011)
Haddad, L., Hossain, N., McGregor, J.A. and Mehta, L.

The Capability Approach and the Politics of a Social Conception of Wellbeing

 European Journal of Social Theory 13.4 (2010)
Deneulin, S. and McGregor, J.A.

Development As The Pursuit of Human Wellbeing

 (2010)
McGregor, J.A., Gough, I.

Development, Rapid Change and Wellbeing in Contemporary Thailand

 (2010)
McGregor, J.A., Camfield, L., Masae, A., Promphakping, B.

Beyond Business as Usual: What Might 3-D Wellbeing Contribute to MDG Momentum?

 IDS Bulletin 41.1 (2010)
Sumner, A. and McGregor, J.A.

Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Thailand

 Journal of Economic Pyschology (2009)
Camfield, L., McGregor, J.A., Woodcock, A.

Social Protection: Responding to a Global Crisis

 (2009)
Davies, M. and McGregor, J.A.

Social Protection Responses to the Financial Crisis: What do we know?

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 7.4 (2009)
Davies, M. and McGregor, J.A.

Validation of the WeDQoL-Goals Thailand Measure: culture-specific individualised quality of life

 1, October.94 (2009)
Woodcock, A., Camfield, L., McGregor, J.A., Martin, F.

Editor’s Introduction: Quality of Life and International Development Policy and Practice

 Applied Research in Quality of Life 4.2 (2009)
Camfield, L. and McGregor, J.A.

Needs, Wants and Goals: Wellbeing, Quality of Life and Public Policy

 Applied Research in Quality of Life 4.2 (2009)
McGregor, J.A., Camfield, L. and Woodcock, A.

After 2015: '3D Human Wellbeing'

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 9.2 (2009)
McGregor, J.A. and Sumner, A.

Wellbeing, Development and Social Change in Thailand

 Thammasat Journal of Economics 26.2 (2008)
McGregor, J.A., Camfield, L., Masae, A., and Promphakping, B.

Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research

 (2007)
Gough, I. and McGregor, J.A.

Conclusion: Researching Human Wellbeing: From Concepts to Methodology

 In 'Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research' (2007)
Gough, I. and McGregor, J.A.

Needs and Resources in the Investigation of Wellbeing in Developing Countries: Illustrative Evidence from Bangladesh and Peru

 Journal of Economic Methodology 14.1 (2007)
McGregor, J.A., McKay, A. and Velazco, J.

Introduction:Conceiving Wellbeing in Development Contexts

 In 'Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research' (2007)
Gough, I. and McGregor, J.A.

Development As The Pursuit Of Human Wellbeing

 (2007)
McGregor , J. A. and Gough, I

Introduction: Conceiving Wellbeing In Development Contexts

 In 'Well-being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies' (2007)
McGregor, J.A., with Gough, I

Well-being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies

 (2007)
McGregor, J.A., with Gough, I
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