Publications

The Dynamics of River Basin Cooperation: The Nile and the Okavango Basins

Politics And Provision: On-the-Ground Realities of Water and Sanitation Development

Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do...

Lyla Mehta

Policy Options in Water-Stressed States: Emerging Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa

How do states manage water stress? What are the experiences in Southern Africa and the Middle East? How can decision makers be supported in the future? These are some of the questions covered in this study, the outcome of ESCOR Small Grants Research Project R7647. Compiled by a team of...

Conceptualising Destitution

IDS working papers;216

The concept of 'destitution' presents challenges to several preoccupations of contemporary poverty discourse: the definition of poverty (narrowly income-based versus broader multi-dimensional approaches); the measurement of poverty (quantitative versus participatory methods); and the temporal...

Stephen Devereux

Who participates? : civil society and the new democratic politics in São Paulo, Brazil

IDS working papers;210

This paper explores the participation of collective civil society actors in institutional spaces for direct citizen participation in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The data was produced by a unique survey of civil society actors who work for, or with, sectors of the lower-middle class, the...

Making rights work for the poor : Nijera Kori and the construction of “collective capabilities” in rural Bangladesh

IDS working papers;200

Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of various international conventions on rights, the reality for its citizens is one of violations as much as the observance of rights. For the poor, in particular,...

Access to justice and legal process : making legal institutions responsive to poor people in LDCs

IDS working papers;178

E-commerce for exporting garments from South Africa : “digital dividend” or leap of faith?

IDS working papers;182

Donors as political actors : fighting the Thirty Years War in Bolivia

IDS working papers;183

Winning spaces : participatory methodologies in rural processes in Mexico

IDS working papers;180

This study examines the development and impact of participatory methodologies (PMs) in Mexico, and forms part of the wider research programme Pathways to Participation. The material for this paper was gathered from interviews and workshops with practitioners of PMs across Mexico, and includes...

Upgrading in the Taiwanese computer cluster : transformation of its production and knowledge systems

IDS working papers;186

The biotech developmental state? : investigating the Chinese gene revolution

IDS working papers;207

China’s experience with agricultural biotechnology has been dramatic. Many new technologies have been developed by public sector research institutes that rival the outputs of the major biotech corporations. This has happened in the context of policy processes and priority setting exercises...