Institute of Development Studies

IDS Classics

These IDS Classics were picked and voted by the IDS Research and Alumni to celebrate IDS' 40th Anniversary which was in 2006. This 40 publications cover all the key research themes that IDS has worked on and some pieces of research remain very relevant today.

Authors included are Sir Hans Singer, Anne Marie Goetz, Robert Chambers, Naila Kabeer, Andrea Cornwall and many more.

Publications

• Scoones, I (1998) 'Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis', IDS Working Paper 72, Brighton:
• White, G (1993) 'Towards a Political Analysis of Markets', IDS Bulletin 24.3, Brighton: IDS
• Seers, D (1968) 'From Colonial Economics to Development Studies', IDS Bulletin 1.1, Brighton: IDS
• White, G. (1993) 'The Political Analysis of Markets: Editorial Introduction', IDS Bulletin 24.3, Brighton: IDS
• White, G (1984) 'Developmental States in East Asia: Editorial Introduction', IDS Bulletin 15.2, Brighton: IDS
• Seers, D. (1984) 'The Meaning of Development', IDS Communication Series 4, Brighton: IDS
• Mehta, L., Leach, M and Scoones, I (2001) 'Editorial: Environmental Governance in an Uncertain World', IDS Bulletin 32.4, Brighton: IDS
• Leonard, D (1988) 'The Secrets of African Managerial Success', IDS Bulletin 19.4, Brighton: IDS
• Lipton, M. (1986) 'Introduction: Aid-effectiveness, Prisoners’ Dilemmas, and Country Allocation', IDS Bulletin 17.2, Brighton: IDS
• Lipton, M (1986) 'Seasonality and Ultrapoverty', IDS Bulletin 17.3, Brighton: IDS
• Scoones, I (1995) 'Living with Uncertainty' , London: Practical Action Publishing
• Moore, M (1993) 'Declining to Learn From the East? The World Bank on ‘Governance and Development’', IDS Bulletin 24.1, Brighton: IDS
• Swift, J (1993) 'Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality', IDS Bulletin 24.4, Brighton: IDS
• Mehta, L., Leach, M., Newell, P., Scoones, I., Sivaramakrishnan, K. and Way, S.A. (1999) 'Exploring Understandings of Institutions and Uncertainty: New Directions in Natural Resource Management', IDS Discussion Paper 372, Brighton: IDS
• Greeley, M (1994) 'Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement', IDS Bulletin 25.2, Brighton: IDS
• Jolly, R (1975) 'Redistribution With Growth – A Reply', IDS Bulletin 7.2:1-17, Brighton: IDS
• Humphrey, J and Schmitz, H (2001) 'Governance in Global Value Chains', IDS Bulletin 32.3:1-17, Brighton: IDS
• Gereffi, G., Humphrey, J., Kaplinsky, R. and Sturgeon, T. (2001) 'Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development', IDS Bulletin 32.3, Brighton: IDS
• Kabeer, N. (1989) 'Monitoring Poverty as if Gender Mattered: A Methodology for Rural Bangladesh ', IDS Discussion Paper 255, Brighton: IDS
• Davies, S. (1994) 'Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Power', IDS Bulletin 25.2 , Brighton: IDS
• Gaventa, J. (2002) 'Introduction: Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability', IDS Bulletin 33.2:1-18, Brighton: IDS
• Howes, M and Chambers, R (1979) 'Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Analysis, Implications and Issues', IDS Bulletin 10.2, Brighton: IDS
• Hamnett, I (1970) 'A Social Scientist Among Technicians', IDS Bulletin 3.1:107, Brighton: IDS
• Buchanan-Smith, M, Davies, S and Petty, C (2010) 'Food Security: Let Them Eat Information', IDS Bulletin 25.2, Brighton: IDS
• Duffield, M (1984) 'Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism', IDS Bulletin 25.4:1-15, Brighton: IDS
• Howes, M (1981) 'Confessions of a Fieldworker: How I Stratified a Rural Population', IDS Bulletin 12.4, Brighton: IDS
• Dore, R (1980) 'The Diploma Disease Revisited', IDS Bulletin 11.1:1-12, Brighton: IDS
• Evans, D (2010) 'Domination and Exploitation in the World Ecomomy in the 1990s', IDS Bulletin 24.3 , IDS
• Lewin, K and Little, A (1982) 'Examination Form and Educational Change in Sri-Lanka 1972-1982: Modernisation or Development Underdevelopment?', IDS Discussion Paper 180, Brighton: IDS
• Harrison, E. (1995) 'Fish and Feminists', IDS Bulletin 26.3, Brighton: IDS
• Daniel, P. (1991) 'Foreign Investment Revisited: Editorial', IDS Bulletin , Brighton: IDS
• Toye, J. and Jackson, C. (1996) 'Public Expenditure Policy and Poverty Reduction: Has the World Bank Got it Right', IDS Bulletin 27.1 , IDS
• Young, K (2010) 'The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process', IDS Bulletin 10.3 , Brighton: IDS
• Goetz, A.M. (1995) 'Instititutionalizing Women's Interests and Accountability to Women in Development', IDS Bulletin 26.3 , Brighton: IDS