Publications

Ideas for development : reflecting forwards

IDS working papers;238

Part 1 (1997): If development means good change, questions arise about what is good, and what sorts of change matter. Answers can be personally defined and redefined. The changing words, meanings and concepts of development discourse both reflect and influence what is done. The realities of...

Asset-pooling in uncertain times : implications of small-group farming for agricultural restructuring in the Kyrgyz Republic

IDS working papers;239

Substantial theoretical and policy debate in the early 1990s led to an excessive focus on de-collectivisation and individualisation of land rights through privatisation across the former communist bloc. The objective of this paper is to examine “individualised” production systems more...

Learning and teaching participation : exploring the role of Higher Learning Institutions as agents of development and social change

IDS working papers;219

This paper explores the potential of Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) as agents of social, institutional and individual change. It argues that while HLIs have a clear role in building the capacity of individuals and organisations to undertake key development initiatives and to practice...

Childhood vaccination and society in The Gambia : public engagement with science and delivery

IDS working papers;218

This paper examines public engagement with routine vaccination delivery, and vaccine trials and related medical research, in The Gambia. Its approach is rooted in social and medical anthropology and ethnographic methods, but combines insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge, and...

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a role for civil society?

Measuring Destitution: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitive Approaches in the Analysis of Survey Data

Through detailed discussion of a methodology developed to quantify destitution in rural Ethiopia, the paper raises a number of issues and ideas concerning the integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches during survey analysis.

At Risk: Natural Hazards, Peoples’ Vulnerability and Disasters

The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'.

Terry Cannon

Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India

A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global ambitions of a cellular-phone service provider with the ambivalently local connotations of the...

From jambanja to planning: the reassertion of technocracy in land reform in south-eastern Zimbabwe?

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Through work in southern Africa this research programme has explored the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land, water and wild resources. The case study sites have been in Zambezia Province, Mozambique, the Eastern Cape Wild Coast in South Africa and the...

Ian Scoones

Microfinance, Poverty and Social Performance

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This IDS Bulletin presents wide-ranging contributions from the three-year Imp-Act programme of action research, a partnership of 30 MFOs in 20 countries and three UK universities.

Alyson Brody & 2 others

Developing Value: The Business Case for Sustainability in Emerging Markets

This article forms part of a special issue providing an insight into the relationship between sustainability performance, business competitiveness and economic success,

Jodie Thorpe

The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets: Changing Interactions in Southern Africa

One of the central tenets of much current development thinking in southern Africa is that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement must be the basis for future economic growth.

Lyla Mehta

Ian Scoones