Evidence into Policy and Practice

The Decentralisation of Local Authority Planning

Radical Planning Initiatives

Restructuring Industrialisation

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There is now widespread recognition by economists and industrial planners that, after some decades of historically unprecedented economic growth, the world economy is in a period of transition.

Raphael Kaplinsky

Monitoring Poverty as if Gender Mattered: A Methodology for Rural Bangladesh

Naila Kabeer

New Seeds and Poor People

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We have, as economists, felt compelled to invade several areas of natural science that were quite unfamiliar to us. In some parts of this book, we are reporting our learning processes.

Richard Longhurst

Neighbourhood Working: A New Approach to Housing Provision

Danny Burns

To the Hands of the Poor: Water and Trees

To the Hands of the Poor explores how poor people can gain more from rural India's vast and often underestimated potential from groundwater and from growing trees. Starting with the livelihoods and priorities of the poor themselves, the authors use empirical evidence and practical political...

Robert Chambers

Economic Development and World Debt

This book contains a rare selection of divergent theoretical and practical views on the acute problem of international debt and its repercussions on world economic growth at large and the developing countries in particular.

Adjusting Education to Economic Crisis

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Over the last two decades the winds have become more persistently chilling for many developing countries whose economies have fallen into the throes of profound and unprecedented economic crises.

Decentralisation

Danny Burns

Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia

The many billions of dollars invested in canal irrigation in recent decades have had disappointing results. Rarely have projected benefits in well-being or production been achieved. In consequence, in the mid-1980s, further vast sums are being spent throughout the Third World on programmes for...

Robert Chambers

Agricultural Pricing Policy in Africa: Four Country Case Studies

This book contains a detailed analysis of agricultural marketing policy and its consequences in Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Case studies explore the various effects of these policies on farmers' livelihoods.