Publications

Triumph, Deficit or Contestation? Deepening the ‘Deepening Democracy’ Debate

Democracy is in a state of flux. What exactly is meant by democracy and what form it should take are continually being questioned. This Working Paper examines some of the emerging debates within the deepening democracy approach and presents a series of challenges for future work.

John Gaventa

AIDS: Questions for Development

Scientists, policymakers, practitioners and communities have spent a quarter of a century attempting to deal with HIV. The virus has nevertheless become pandemic and one of the most significant challenges to health and development today.

Jerker Edström

Gerald Bloom

Reducing Complexity in the Industrial Policy Debate

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A central concern of industrial policy is how to configure the relationship with the global economy. The manifold choices and pressures make this a difficult task for policy?makers. This article suggests a way of framing discussions between policy?makers, advisers and researchers, to help reduce...

Hubert Schmitz

The Impact of Collective Action on Economic Development: Empirical Evidence from Kerala, India

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Published in World Development, this Journal article provides a novel empirical analysis of the impact of collective action on economic development using data for South India.

Patricia Justino

Learning for Social Change

Jethro Pettit

The State of Governance in Bangladesh 2006: Knowledge, Perceptions, Reality

In the context of a developing country like Bangladesh, studying governance is not an academic exercise but a means to understanding if and how the openness, transparency and accountability of the system will impact on the effectiveness of services delivered to the poor and the disadvantaged....

Naomi Hossain

The Making of European Defense: Socialization of the military in the civil framework of the EU

Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

This study reviews existing knowledge on social protection experiences and lessons in southern Africa, concentrating on policies and instruments currently implemented in the six RHVP focus countries: Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Social protection includes but is...

Stephen Devereux

State Welfare in Egypt since Adjustment: Hegemonic Control with a Minimalist Role

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This article argues that Egypt's implementation of an economic reform and structural adjustment programme since 1991 has not led to a reduction of its hegemony over certain welfare services. Yet its role in the provision of free health and educational services has been drastically curtailed.

Mariz Tadros

Implications for Aid Practice: Taking a Citizen’s Perspective

Rosalind Eyben

Understanding Policy Processes: A Review of IDS Research on the Environment

For over a decade, researchers in the IDS Environment Group have been engaging with a growing body of work on policy processes which encompasses among other things: the relationship between science, expertise and policy, political interests, public participation and network theory.

Ian Scoones & 3 others

Opportunistic and conservative pastoral strategies: some economic arguments

This paper revisits the debate over the relative effectiveness of ‘conservative’ and ‘opportunistic’ stocking strategies for African pastoral rangelands. The paper is based on a reassessment of the results of an earlier paper in this journal by Campbell et al. (2000) [Campbell, B.M.,...

Ian Scoones