Publications

The Northern WTO Agenda on Investment: Do as we say, not as we did

Also published in Spanish by same publishers, as La Inversión en la OMC, Una Trampa del Norte.

Special and Differential Treatment in Terms of Trade

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) declaration launching the current multilateral trade negotiations put developing country interests and the concept of special and differential treatment (SDT) at its core.

The Rise of Rights: Rights-based Approaches to International Development

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International development agencies are increasingly using rights-based language. But how can their policy and practice support people's own efforts to turn their rights into reality?

Robert Chambers & 4 others

Donors as Political Actors: Fighting the Thirty Years War in Bolivia

Based on the author's own experience as head of a bilateral agency country office, the paper tells a story about how the donor community became engaged in a conflict about monitoring the Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Rosalind Eyben

Mind the Gap

Learning and insights from a short “action inquiry” into youth health needs in Hounslow conducted between October 2002 and March 2003.

Danny Burns

Legal Frameworks for Citizen Participation: Synthesis Report

Which factors contribute to effective citizen participation in local governance? This is one of the central questions underpinning the work of LogoLink, theLearning Initiative in Citizen Participation and Local Governance. The experienceof LogoLink partners and other actors devoted to promoting...

Rosemary McGee

Destitution in Ethiopia’s Northeast Highlands (Amhara Region)

This research project into the magnitude, causes and consequences of destitution in the former Wollo province of Ethiopia was motivated by combination of empirical and policy concerns. The empirical context is an apparent contradiction between ‘official’ evidence from household surveys,...

Stephen Devereux

Wildlife Management and Land Reform in Southeastern Zimbabwe: A Compatible Pairing or a Contradiction in Terms?

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

The Reality of E-Commerce with Developing Countries

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is widely believed to promise a radical change in the way that firms trade with one another. B2B e-commerce applications are being promoted as tools that will enable producer firms in developing countries to reduce their costs substantially, thereby easing...

John Humphrey & 3 others

Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women: the case of Zambia

Problems of Publicness and Access Rights: Perspectives from the Water Domain

Evaluates the concept of global public goods in terms of its usefulness for guiding debates on people's access to freshwater resources, and argues that more attention needs to be paid to two issues—first, the divergence of perception of the nature of the good and of how it should be accessed...

Clusters and Chains: How Interfirm Organization Influences Industrial Upgrading

The vast majority of developing countries have undergone a process of trade liberalisation, so the choice open to them is not whether to integrate into the global economy but how. It is this question of how that drives this chapter.

Hubert Schmitz