Institute of Development Studies

IDS Research Summaries

The IDS Research Summary series are short two-page summaries available for all IDS Working Papers and other publications published since January 2006. The most recent publications are listed below. All others can be accessed through the IDS bookshop.

Transforming Children’s Lives Through Innovation in Quality Education: Implications for Policy and Practice (Research Summary)

IDS Research Summary Issue: 4

In response to global initiatives, huge gains have been made in increasing access to education worldwide. But much education in the South is of poor quality and does not address the intergenerational transmission of inequality and poverty.



• Shutt, C. (2009) 'Changing the World by Changing Ourselves: reflections from a bunch of BINGOs (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Practice Paper 3, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J. (2009) 'A Partnership for Health in China: Reflections on the Partnership Between the Government of China, the World Bank and DFID in the China Basic Health Services Project (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 2, Brighton: IDS
• Chambers, R (2009) 'Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward (Research Summary)' RSPP1, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Tadros, M. (2009) 'Advocacy in the age of authoritarianism: adjustments of all sorts (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 337, Brighton: IDS
• Thekkudan, J. and Tandon, R. (2009) 'Women’s Livelihoods, Global Markets and Citizenship (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 336, Brighton: IDS
• Sumner, A., Ishmael-Perkins, N. and Lindstrom, J. (2009) 'Making Science of Influencing: Assessing the Impact of Development Research (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 335, Brighton: IDS
• Cross, J. and MacGregor, H (2009) 'Who Are 'informal health providers' and What Do They Do? Perspectives from Medical Anthropology (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 334, Brighton: IDS
• Kabeer, N. with Haq Kabir, A. and Yasmin Huq, T. (2009) 'Quantifying the Impact of Social Mobilisation in Rural Bangladesh: Donors, Civil Society and ‘The Road not Taken’ (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 333, Brighton: IDS
• Alonso, A. (2009) 'Hybrid Activism: Paths of globalisation in the Brazilian Environmental Movement (Research Summary) ', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 332, Brighton: IDS
• Kabeer, N (2009) 'Citizenship Narratives in the Absence of Good Governance: Voices of the Working Poor in Bangladesh (Research Summary)', Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 331, Brighton: IDS
• Prichard, W (2009) 'The Politics of Taxation and Implications for Accountability in Ghana 1981–2008 (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 330, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Waldman, L (2009) '‘Show me the Evidence’: Mobilisation, Citizenship and Risk in Indian Asbestos Issues (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 329, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Icaza, R, Newell, P and Saguier, M (2009) 'Democratising Trade Politics in the Americas: Insights from the Women’s, Environmental and Labour Movements (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 328, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Gaventa, J. and Mayo, M. (2009) 'Spanning Citizenship Spaces Through Transnational Coalitions (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 327, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Harris, D, Moore, M and Schmitz, H (2009) 'Country Classifications for a Changing World (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 326, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Cornwall, A., Romano, J. and Shankland, A. (2009) 'Brazilian Experiences of Participation and Citizenship: A Critical Look (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 389, Brighton: IDS
• Cassidy, R and Leach, M (2009) 'AIDS, Citizenship and Global Funding: A Gambian Case Study (Research Summary)' RS325, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Robins, S (2009) 'Mobilising and Mediating Global Medicine and Health (Research Summary)' RS324, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Borras Jr, S M, and Franco, J C (2009) 'Transnational Agrarian Movements Struggling for Land and Citizenship Rights (Research Summary)' RS323, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Davies, M., Guenther, B., Leavy, J., Mitchell, T. and Tanner, T. (2009) 'Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: Complementary Roles in Agriculture and Rural Growth? (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 320, Brighton: IDS
• Hossain, N (2009) 'Rude Accountability in the Unreformed State: Informal Pressures on Frontline Bureaucrats in Bangladesh (Research Summary)' RS319, Brighton:
• Bagayoko-Penone, N and McLean Hilker, L (2009) 'Essays on Transforming Security and Development in an Unequal World (Research Summary)' RS322, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Williams, T (2009) 'An African Success Story: Ghana’s Cocoa Marketing System (Research Summary)', Research Summary 318, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Cornwall, A (2009) 'Changing Ideals in a Donor Organisation: ‘Participation’ in Sida (Research Summary)' RS317, Brighton:
• Leonard, D. (2009) 'Recreating Political Order: The Somali Systems Today (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 316, Brighton: IDS
• Tanner, T, Mitchell, T, Polack, E and Guenther, B (2009) 'Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities (Research Summary)', Research Summary 315, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Conyers, D (2009) 'Deepening Democracy in the UK: Rhetoric and Reality (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 314, Brighton: IDS
• Scoones, I (2009) 'Global Engagements with Global Assessments: The Case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 313, Brighton: IDS
• Crichton, J, Nyamu Musembi, C and Ngugi, A (2009) 'Painful Tradeoffs: Intimate-partner Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Kenya (Research Summary)' RS312, Brighton:
• Acosta, A.M. (2009) 'Aid, Rents and the Politics of the Budget Process (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 311, Brighton: IDS
• Campuzano, G (2009) 'Building Identity While Managing Disadvantage: Peruvian Transgender Issue (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 310, Brighton: IDS
• Bandyopadhyay, N (2009) 'Streetwalkers Show the Way: Reframing the Global Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers’ Perspectives (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 309, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Humphrey, J. (2009) 'Private Standards, Small Farmers and Donor Policy: EUREPGAP in Kenya', IDS Research Summary 308, Brighton: IDS
• Moore, M. and Schmitz, H. (2009) 'Idealism, Realism and the Investment Climate in Developing Countries (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summaries 307, Brighton: IDS
• Leonard, D.K. (2009) 'Where Are 'Pockets' of Effective Agencies Likely in Weak Governance States and Why? A Propositional Inventory (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 306, Brighton: IDS
• Eyben, R. (2009) 'Power, Mutual Accountability and Responsibility in the Practice of International Aid: A Relational Approach (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 305, Brighton: IDS
• Schmitz, H and Strambach, S (2009) 'The Organisational Decomposition of the Innovation Process: What Doesit Mean for Global Distribution of Innovation Activities (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 304, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Arellano-Yanguas, J. (2009) 'A Thoroughly Modern Resource Curse? The New Natural Resource Policy Agenda and the Mining Revival in Peru (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 300, Brighton: IDS
• Kalpana, K (2009) 'The Vulnerability of 'Self-Help': Women and Microfinance in South India (Research Summary) ', IDS Research Summary 303, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Brown, D. and Gaventa, J. (2009) 'Constructing Transnational Action Research Networks: Observations and Reflections from the case of the Citizenship DRC (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary 302, Brighton: IDS
• Waldman, L (2009) ''Through no Fault of Your Own': Asbestos Diseases in South Africa and the UK (Research Summary', IDS Research Summary 301, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Jolly, S (2009) 'Why the Development Industry Should Get Over its Obsession With Bad Sex and Start to Think About Pleasure (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 283, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
• Deak, Andrew (2009) 'Taking Community-Led Total Sanitation to Scale: Movement, Spread and Adaptation (Research Summary)', IDS Research Report of IDS Working Paper 298, Brighton: IDS
• Moncrieffe, Joy (2009) 'Making and Unmaking the Young ‘Shotta’ [Shooter]: Boundaries and (Counter) – Actions in the ‘Garrisons’ (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 297, Brighton: IDS
• Chambers, R (2009) 'Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 296, Brighton: IDS
• Humphrey, J. and Schmitz, H. (2009) 'China: Its Impact on the Developing Asian Economies', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 295, Brighton: IDS