Publications

The General Agreement on Trade and Services and Poor People’s Right to Water

During the Uruguay Round the scope of multilateral negotiations under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was extended to include trade in services. The outcome was the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which was established on 1 January 1995. Since 2000,...

Lyla Mehta

Birgit la Cour Madsen

The Macro Content of the PRSPs: Assessing the Need for a more Flexible Macroeconomic Policy Framework

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The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years

Richard Jolly

Value Chain Analysis for Policy Makers and Practitioners

Are you a policy maker in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, trying to improve the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises? Do you work in a local government agency with a brief to improve the earning opportunities of entrepreneurs and workers?

Hubert Schmitz

Rights-Based Approaches and Beyond: Challenges of Linking Rights and Participation

This paper explores the growing trend of 'rights-based approaches' (RBA) to development, drawing from interviews with a range of primarily US-based international human rights and development organisations as well as from insights through the authors' years of experience working with development...

Participatory Social Auditing: A Practical Guide to Developing a Gender-Sensitive Approach

A participatory approach to codes of labour practice comes from a different perspective to more compliance focused 'snapshot' social auditing. It puts greater emphasis on involvement of workers and workers' organisations in the process of code implementation and assessment.

Developing Rights?

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The recent 'rise of rights' has sparked much critical reflection, one of the key concerns being 'What is different this time'?. Can this emerging focus on rights within development help bring about favourable changes for poor and marginalised people?

Climate Change and Carbon Markets: A Handbook of Emissions Reduction Mechanisms

This book is a guide for national and international policy-makers and industry professionals who need to understand the carbon markets established pursuant to the Kyoto protocol, one of the most complex agreements ever negotiated.

Readings in Gender in Africa

A comprehensive overview of the existing literature on gender, bringing together important and influential essays from widely disparate sources. A valuable collection for scholars and students.

Poverty Reduction During Democratic Transition: The Malawi Social Action Fund 1996-2001

In 1996 the Government of Malawi launched the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF), which supported the construction of village assets and a public works programme. This report presents the findings of a review of MASAF by a multi-disciplinary team from three well-known research institutions.

Gerald Bloom

Henry Lucas

Governance Hybrids: Pro-Poor, Rights-Based Approaches in Rural Peru

How do we understand the hybrid forms of governance that occasionally emerge when rights-based approaches (RBA) are introduced into contexts of extreme poverty?

Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

Rapid changes in science and technology pose a range of challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around...

Melissa Leach

Ian Scoones