After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions.
1 January 2004
This paper examines public engagement with routine vaccination delivery, and vaccine trials and related medical research, in The Gambia.
1 January 2004
This is a timely Study when the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the international community to tackle problems of poverty in developing countries by the year 2015, have identified universal participation and gender equality in primary schooling as major goals.
1 January 2004
Some two years ago the Department for International Development (DfID) commissioned a bibliography on inequality. It was subsequently noted that this had concentrated on 'economic' inequality and it was thought it might be helpful if this were balanced by a complementary review looking at...
1 January 2004
In the 1980s, Latin American countries began to implement a set of tax reforms inspired in large part by the international financial institutions and ideas associated with the Washington Consensus.
1 January 2004
IDS working papers;222
Over the past few decades, developing countries that are rich in natural resources have performed significantly less well in economic terms than those that are resource poor. Indonesia is an exception in this respect. Despite its natural resource wealth, Indonesia performed extremely well in the...
1 January 2004
In the context of the high-profile controversy that has unfolded in the UK around the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and its possible adverse effects, this paper addresses how parents in Brighton are thinking about MMR for their own children.
1 January 2004
This paper examines the way that a range of development actors view and engage with the arena of trade policy, focusing in particular on the challenges encountered by civil society actors participating in that arena.
1 January 2004
Codes of conduct covering employment conditions of southern producers have gained popularity over the past decade. In African horticulture employers now face a plethora of codes coming from supermarkets, importers, exporters and trade associations.
1 January 2004
Informal local governance institutions (ILGIs) are complex organisations, which continue to be prevalent at village level in rural India.
1 January 2004
Senior staff in aid agencies are involved in daily decisions about policy and practice which have direct impact on the lives of poor people. But in a rapidly changing world, how can they be sure that they are basing those decisions on up-to-date information about what poor people want and would...
1 January 2004
Organisational learning, in which leaders and managers give priority to learning as integral to practice, is increasingly recognized as critical to improved performance.
1 January 2004
