Vulnerability to Crises and MDGs
This project examined possible current vulnerabilities to financial crises in the Asian region, and made suggestions for how they could be diminished.
This project examined possible current vulnerabilities to financial crises in the Asian region, and made suggestions for how they could be diminished.
Focusing on the case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in southern Africa – and specifically Botswana, Nambia, South Africa and Zimbabwe – this research is exploring the economic, social and political trade-offs arising from disease control strategies geared towards promoting commercial beef...
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries.
IDS were commissioned to carry out an external evaluation of the DECT programme.
Pathways is a research and communication programme which seeks to discover where women are achieving real gains despite or because of policy and practice. It looks at how this has happened, and aims to make these pathways visible so that we can build on these revealed successes.
Exploring the power of labelling in development practice
ESRC -DFID funded project investigated why ethnic minority peoples have failed to share equally in the benefits of Vietnam's recent rapid economic growth, despite the plethora of government programmes designed to assist them.
Undertaking collaborative research into the causes and effects of violent conflict at the household level.
The objective of this work was to assist the GoP with developing a national social protection strategy, involving public and private initiatives that can contribute, both directly and indirectly, to growth, poverty reduction and human security in Pakistan.
Agenda-setting papers identifying the major issues raised by China's rapid growth for developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, and a review of issues arising from China's participation in institutions of global governance.
The goal of the project was to promote the development of research networks in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia working on the Asian Drivers theme: the impact of China and India on other parts of the developing world.
The question driving this project was how was the 'organisational decomposition of the innovation process' (ODIP) changing the global distribution of innovation activities.