Publication
Notes on access to justice in a megalopolis : São Paulo, Brazil
IDS working papers;181
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;181
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;213
There is a continuing debate over the value of public-partnerships in providing public services in poor urban areas. Many policy-makers in the developing countries have been persuaded that the main problem with established direct public service provision lies in principal-agent problems, i.e....
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;193
Drawing on interviews with international financial players based in London, New York, Chicago and other US financial centres, this paper aims to provide further information and insights into lenders’ and investors’ behaviour and their attitudes towards developing countries, and to identify...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;197
This paper asks what regulation actually means in practice in the post-economic reform context of India, taking the case of biosafety regulation and Bt cotton as a case. The last few years have been a test case for such regulations, culminating in the formal approval of Bt cotton for commercial...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;196
This paper is a story of the making of a policy, one that included many different players, located across a variety of sites. By tracing the origins of the millennium biotechnology policy in Karnataka state, south India, examining the content of and participants in the debate that led up to it,...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;199
This report reviews governance issues of modern biotechnology. The study used two case studies of
transgenic sweet potato and Bt maize to examine how governance issues influence household and national
food security in the country. The report argues that for biotechnology to engender food...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;201
This paper seeks to identify and explain the ways in which different firms affected by and involved in the debate about the role of biotechnology in Indian agriculture have sought to advance their interests. It is argued that the public positions of larger biotech and agro-chemical companies,...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;202
The overall goal of this paper is to reexamine findings of earlier efforts that analysed the effect of Bt cotton adoption in 1999 with two follow-up surveys conducted in 2000 and 2001. Our survey data on yields and econometric analyses indicate that the adoption of Bt cotton continues to...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;177
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;179
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;184
Access to latrines in rural areas of Bangladesh is less than 15 per cent. Many international agencies and
non-governmental organisations have been working to improve environmental sanitation by constructing
latrines and toilets with subsidies provided at different rates. But even after three...
1 January 2003
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This article highlights distinctions between three determinants of poverty — low labour productivity, vulnerability, and dependency — and two categories of anti–poverty interventions — livelihood promotion and livelihood protection. Within this framework, social safety nets can be...
16 December 2002
