1 December 2005
Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, the causes and consequences of which are analytically examined here.
27 October 2005
Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships? The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid,...
20 October 2005
Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships? The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid,...
20 October 2005
36
This IDS Bulletin aims to provide policy-relevant research insights for a wide range of actors interested in climate change adaptation. It brings together results from a recently completed interdisciplinary research project, the Linking Climate Adaptation Project, about how vulnerable...
1 October 2005
36
The objective of the linking Climate Change Adaptation (LCA) Project was to ensure that poor people benefit from adaptation processes rather than bearing burdens by, for example, having the risks caused by climate change shifted in their direction.
1 October 2005
6 September 2005
1 September 2005
In this paper we review a selection of different instruments that address various aspects of risk and vulnerability. Specifically we look at: social pension insurance; social health insurance; microfinance/insurance; public works programmes; conditional cash transfers; cash transfers and school...
1 September 2005
36
A major increase in the amount of aid to less developed countries is widely anticipated, by or soon after late 2005, to bolster efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The sums involved may not be as substantial as expected, and they come mainly from Europe, but we are still likely...
1 September 2005
23
This article revisits through a policy analysis the ongoing debate on shrimp farming aquaculture. It describes the changes in policy orientations that have taken place in recent years, and tries to relate them to the advocacy strategies developed by different networks and policy communities.
1 September 2005
1 July 2005
