Publications

Creating a Development Friendly EU Trade Policy

Policy processes for veterinary services in Africa: Report of a pilot training initiative by the Institutional and Policy Support Team of AU-IBAR and the Institute of Development Studies, UK.

Women’s Contributions to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Ten years after South Africa's successful transition from a state built upon the subjugation of its majority population to one based on democracy, its relatively peaceful process of transformation is heralded as a model to other nations. In particular, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliations...

Systems of innovation theory and the changing architecture of agricultural research in Africa

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This paper examines the on-going evolution of the organisational architecture of agricultural research in Africa. Once considered a rural backwater populated by agronomists, extension agents and farmers, agricultural research is now being explicitly placed within global debates about innovation,...

James Sumberg

The Impact of Asian Drivers on the Developing World

IDS Bulletin 37.1

The past 500 years of global history have been characterised by changing patterns of global dominance. In the late sixteenth century, China accounted for around 30 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), compared with a share of around 20 per cent for Western Europe and less than 5 per...

Raphael Kaplinsky

Pro-Poor, Rights-Based Approaches in the Presence of Pervasive Clientelism: an Evaluation of DFID El Gol Electoral Assistance

Making Cash Count: Lessons from Cash Transfer Schemes in East and Southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

This study was conducted as part of a UNICEF-commissioned review of social protection measures reaching the increasing numbers of vulnerable children in east and southern Africa.

Stephen Devereux

Making Value Chain Governance Work for the Implementation of Quality, Labour and Environmental Standards: Upgrading Challenges in the Footwear Industry

Lizbeth Navas-Aleman

Representative Decentralization vs. Participatory Decentralization: A Critical Analysis of Local Government Plan 2000

In a comparative study, Shandana Khan Mohmand examines Pakistan’s decentralization plan and finds that owing to some basic structural flaws in the plan, decetralisation in Pakistan though representative is not necessarily participatory.

Shandana Khan Mohmand

Models of Military Expenditure and Growth: A Critical Review

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This paper reviews some of the theoretical and econometric issues involved in estimating growth models that include military spending. While the mainstream growth literature has not found military expenditure to be a significant determinant of growth, much of the defence economics literature has...

Dirk Willenbockel

The Future of the International Monetary System

The Impact of Structural Reforms on Poverty: A Simple Methodology with Extensions