Els Lecoutere
 Publications
     
Book Chapters

Lecoutere, E. (2008) Wateronzekerheid in ruraal Tanzania: Een armoedeval… voor sommigen. In R. Doom (Ed.), Conflict en Ontwikkeling : overleven in de grensgebieden van de globalisering, (pp.451-475). Gent: Academia Press
     
Articles

D'Exelle, Ben; Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Lecoutere, Els. Modernization and time preferences in Tanzania : evidence from a large-scale elicitation exercise. JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (forthcoming)

Lecoutere, Els. Institutions under construction : resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes. JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES. 2011. 5 (2) : 252-273.

D'Exelle, Ben ; Lecoutere, Els ; Van Campenhout, Bjorn. Social Status and Bargaining when Resources are Scarce: Evidence from a Field Lab Experiment. CBESS Discussion Paper. 2010. Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, University of East Anglia. : 38.

Lecoutere, Els. Institutions Under Construction: Resolving Resource Conflicts in Tanzanian Irrigation Schemes. MICROCON Research Working Paper. 2010. MICROCON: Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. 23 : 1-32.

Lecoutere, Els ; D'Exelle, Ben ; Van Campenhout, Bjorn. Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-arid Africa. MICROCON Research Working Papers. 2010. MICROCON: A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. 31: 1-27.

Lecoutere, Els ; Vlassenroot, Koen ; Raeymaekers, Timothy. Conflict, institutional changes and food insecurity in eastern DR Congo. AFRIKA FOCUS. 2009. 22 (2) : 41-63.

Lecoutere, E. & Titeca, K. (2008). The Opec Boys and the political economy of smuggling in northern Uganda. HiCN Working Paper, 2008 (36). Brighton: Households in Conflict Network, The Institute of Development Studies.

Lecoutere, E., Vlassenroot, K., Raeymaekers, T. (2008). Conflict, Food Insecurity and Fragility in Eastern D.R. Congo, CRG Working Paper, 2008 (11). Gent: Conflict Research Group, Centre for Third World Studies.

 
     
 Presentations
   
'Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-arid Africa.' Presented at the MICROCON Workshop 2010, June14-15, 2010, University of Ghent, Ghent. (co-authors Ben D'Exelle, and Bjorn Van Campenhout)

'Resolving resource conflicts: 'bricolage' and power at work in Tanzanian irrigation schemes' presented at the UNU-EHS Junior Researcher's Seminar, October 15, 2009, UNU-EHS, Bonn
‘‘Heterogeneity in Power Status and Its Effect on Rule Compliance in Self-governed Irrigation Systems’ presented at the13th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, June 18-20, 2009, University of California at Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business, USA. (co-authors Ben D’Exelle, and Bjorn Van Campenhout)
‘Social Status and Distributive Conflicts in Irrigation Systems: A Field Experiment’ presented at the International Conference on Water in Africa: Hydro-Pessimism or Hydro-Optimism, October 2-3, 2008, Centre of African Studies of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal (co-authors D’ Exelle, B., Van Campenhout, B.)
‘The Opec Boys and the political economy of smuggling in Northern Uganda’ presented at the Households in Conflict Network’s 3rd Annual Workshop, December 10-11, 2007, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK (co-auteur Titeca, K.)
‘The Opec Boys and the political economy of smuggling in northern Uganda’ presented at the CRG-MENARG research seminar, December 13, 2007, Centre for Third World Studies, Ghent University (co-author: Titeca, K.)

‘Conflict, Fragility and Institutional Change: An Analysis of the Food Insecurity Trap in Eastern DRC’ presented at the UNU-WIDER Conference on Fragile States - Fragile Groups, June 15-16, 2007, Helsinki, Finland (co-authors Vlassenroot, K., Raeymaekers, T.)

‘Insecure water rights in Tanzania. Institutions and Power’ presented at the Ronald Coase Institute's Workshop in Institutional Analysis, June 16–21, 2007, Reykjavik, Iceland

‘Fragility in Eastern D.R. Congo: Conflict, Institutional Change and Food Insecurity’ presented at the CRG-MENARG research seminar, June 11, 2007, Centre for Third World Studies, Ghent University (co-authors: K. Vlassenroot & T. Raeymaekers)

‘Insecure entitlement to water in rural Tanzania: The role of power and institutions’ presented at the CSAE Conference 2007 on Economic Development in Africa, March 18-20, 2007, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

‘Insecure entitlement to water in rural Tanzania: The role of power and institutions. Exploring a new institutional economic framework for analysis’ (draft) presented at the CRG-MENARG research seminar, February 27, 2007, Centre for Third World Studies, Ghent University

‘Customary and statutory water management institutions: Implications for rural livelihoods in Tanzania’, presented at the CRG-MENARG research seminar, April 28, 2006, Centre for Third World Studies, Ghent University