Evidence into Policy and Practice

Gender, Conflict and Development. Volume 2: Case Studies: Cambodia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Somalia, Algeria, Guatemala and Eritrea

This report is based on a review of published and unpublished literature, as well as information from agencies operational in conflict areas.

The Design of Economic Reforms in the Context of Economic Liberalization: The Experience of Mozambique, Senegal and Uganda

This paper presents the main conclusions from research into the experience of economic policy reforms in African countries that are undertaking political liberalization.

Can Aid Promote Good Government?

The promotion of 'good government' has become an explicit objective of most aid donors. This has raised suspicions in developing countries, particularly when the threat of withholding aid has been used to force multi-party elections.

Mick Moore

Confronting Famine in Africa

Famine poses a continuing threat to many of the poorest countries in Africa. There is much that can be done, however, to reduce the risk of famine, and limit the damage done. Speeding up the response to famine early warning signals is vital.

Paying for Health: New Lessons from China

China's rural health services provided a model for the rest of the world during the 1970s. Since then, China has been undergoing a shift to a market economy. This has had a radical impact on the health sector.

Gerald Bloom

Henry Lucas

New Thinking on Gender and Environment

The need to build women's interests into policy making on the environment is widely accepted and many environment projects have made attempts to involve women. But up to now the approach has been too narrow. As a result, women have gained little, and in some cases have become worse off.

Melissa Leach

Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Part for the Poor?

In a new approach announced by the World Bank and IMF, civil society is being offered a part in shaping and implementing national anti-poverty strategies.

Rosemary McGee

General Versus Vocational Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Rates of Return Evidence

IDS working papers;23

The purpose o f this short article is to examine critically the current orthodoxy concerning social rates o f returns to general and vocational secondary education in developing countries. Since George Psacharopoulos has been the prime mover in establishing this orthodoxy, we shall focus in...

Export-oriented Industrialisation Through Primary Processing?

IDS working papers;19

Recent research suggests that East Asia's manufactured export success is not replicable in other developing countries, with lower skill/land ratios. This conclusion, however, is based on a narrow definition of manufactured exports. The present paper asks whether the chances of...

Using and Abusing Rates of Return: A Critique of the World Bank’s 1995 Education Sector Review

IDS working papers;22

Chinese Trade Unions in the Transition from Socialism: The emergence of Civil Society or the Road to Corporatism?

IDS working papers;18

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform

IDS working papers;17

Since 1950 China has transformed itself from the sick man of Asia' to a country with better than average health indices for its level of national income. This achievement was due to a number of factors including a dramatic fall in the prevalence of severe poverty, improvements in the rural...