Publications

A Civil Movement or a Movement of Civics? The South African National Civic Organisation in the post-apartheid Period

Global Standards and Local Responses: Case Study from Pakistan

Mimeo

Agricultural Biotechnology Policy Processes in China

Biotechnology and the Policy Process: Zimbabwe

Background paper, Biotechnology and the policy process in developing countries project

Biotechnology for the Poor?

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Changing Organisations for Sustainable Livelihoods: a map to guide change

Researchers and practitioners concerned with sustainable livelihoods have identified the need both for greater understanding of how government organisations impact on sustainable livelihoods and also for guidelines on how to influence the organisational environment to achieve favourable outcomes.

Civil Society and Development: A Critical Exploration

Collective Action and Patterns of Political Authority: Rural Workers, Church, and State in Brazil

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This article explores how new political actors form and reproduce themselves within societies' most vulnerable sectors, those marginalized from the state's authoritative decision-making centers. It explores this question in national settings that characterize much of the contemporary world -...

Peter P. Houtzager

Comparing Chain Governance and Upgrading Patterns in the Sinos Valley, Brazil

Mimeo

Lizbeth Navas-Aleman

Global Transformations and New Conflicts

IDS Bulletin Vol. 32 Nos. 2

The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post-Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation-building.

Robin Luckham

Developing Country Firms in the World Economy: Governance and Upgrading in Global Value Chains

The concept of 'governance' is central to the global value chain approach. This article explains what it means and why it matters for development research and policy. The concept is used to refer to the inter-firm relationships and institutional mechanisms through which non-market co-ordination...

John Humphrey

Hubert Schmitz

E-commerce: Accelerator of Development?

E-commerce holds out enormous promises for producers in poor countries: easier access to the markets of rich countries and higher incomes resulting from these new trading opportunities.

John Humphrey & 3 others