Publications

Community-Led Total Sanitation

This paper is intended to complement IDS Working Paper 257 (November 2005), by giving a short update on recent developments in the rapidly changing field of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in six countries in South and South East Asia. It highlights emerging trends, successes, challenges...

Petra Bongartz

Kamal Kar

Competitive Institution-Building: The PT and Participatory Budgeting in Rio Grande do Sul

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Dangling by a Thread: How Sharp are the Chinese Scissors?

Paper prepared for Africa Policy Division, DFID

Mike Morris

Raphael Kaplinsky

Deep and Shallow Integration in Asia: Towards a Holistic Account

IDS Bulletin 37.1

We live in a world of increasing specialisation and division of labour. In the corporate world, firms are globally outsourcing non-core activities, and specialising in core competences. This repositioning allows firms to increase productivity and generate appropriate economic rents. The danger...

Sherman Robinson & 2 others

Democracia, Pluralização da Representação e Sociedade Civil

A representação política nas democracias contemporâneas sofreu transformações profundas no último quartel do século XX: partidos políticos de massas perderam sua centralidade como ordenadores estáveis das identidades e preferências do eleitorado; a personalização midiática...

Graziela Castello

Peter P. Houtzager

Developing a Social Protection Index for Asia

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Development Dilemmas in China: Socialist Transition and Late Liberalization

Development’s Marginalisation of Sexuality: Report of an IDS Workshop

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East Asia’s Growing Demand for Primary Commodities: Macroeconomic Challenges for Latin America

Economic Development and Social Protection in East Asia

Ethical Sourcing in the Global Food System: Challenges and Opportunities

Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis

IDS Bulletin 37.6

Around the world, new spaces and opportunities are emerging for citizen engagement in policy and governance processes. Yet opportunities for participation do not automatically translate into spaces for change.

John Gaventa