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The development research programmes at IDS are organised in five closely linked multidisciplinary teams.

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DPhil by Research

MA Development Studies

MA Poverty and Development

MA Gender and Development

MA Governance and Development

MA Globalisation and Development

MA Participation, Power and Social Change

MA Science, Society and Development

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1. Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Evidence from Asia, IDS Bulletin Issue: 4 Volume: 41

2. Negotiating Empowerment, IDS Bulletin Issue: 2 Volume: 41

3. Reflecting Collectively on Capacities for Change, IDS Bulletin Issue: 3 Volume: 41

4. Intergenerational Transmissions: Cultivating Agency?, IDS Bulletin Issue: 1 Volume: 40

5. Ideas for Development, Robert Chambers

NGOs’ Strategies and the Challenge of Development and Democracy in Bangladesh

IDS Working Paper 343 by Kabeer, K, Mahmud, S and Castro, J

Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox.

Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism

IDS Working Paper 344 by Robert Chambers

In earlier analysis, two paradigms were identified in development professionalism, thinking and practice: one, often dominant, associated with things; and one, often subordinate, associated with people.

Security Systems in Francophone Africa

IDS Research Report 64 by Niagalé Bagayoko

This research report is a broad-based study that seeks to understand the structural and developmental processes that characterise the security sector in Francophone Africa.