Allister McGregor Director, ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries, University of Bath, UK "Wellbeing and its Challenges to International Development"
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Allister McGregor is Director of the UK ESRC-funded funded Research Group on Well-Being in Developing Countries (WeD) and is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and International Development at the University of the Bath. The WeD research group is developing a conceptual and methodological framework for understanding the social and cultural construction of well-being in developing countries. The group is working with research partners in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru and Thailand to carry out detailed empirical research in rural and urban communities in each country. He has a disciplinary background is economics and social anthropology and has extensive experience of primary fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia.

His main research interest has been in the ways that policy processes in developing countries work and, in particular, how the formulation and implementation of development policies impact upon poor people. This has included work on credit, debt and microfinance, as well as on renewable natural resources. He recently co-edited a Special Issue of Global Social Policy on ‘Human Well-being’ with Ian Gough and contributed an article to that titled  ‘Researching Well-Being: Communicating Between the Needs of Policy Makers and the Needs of People.’ Global Social Policy, 4, 3. pp337-358. Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research edited by Ian Gough and Allister McGregor was published by Cambridge University Press this year.

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