IDS Working Paper 13
A recently completed survey of British manufacturing investment in fourteen anglophone African countries indicates that there has been major disinvestment during the last five years. This process of corporate disengagement is occuring despite concerted attempts by African governments to...
5 December 1994
IDS working papers;12
The paper aims to provoke thought on the apparent entrapment of the poorest countries in a vicious circle of self-perpetuating backwardness. It begins with a selective review of the debate on growth failure, covering conventional and structuralist arguments and new growth theory.
2 December 1994
IDS Working Paper 11
The paper makes an initial analysis of the trade policy changes that the EU will implement to give effect to its GATT Round commitments. It focuses mainly on tariff changes in three areas: industrial products of interest to developing countries, temperate agricultural products, and goods on...
1 December 1994
26 October 1994
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The basic idea of linking relief and development is simple and sensible. But what is involved in practice and what are the barriers preventing it? This IDS Bulletin presents a collection of articles on the issues involved, a number of case studies, and perspectives from several leading...
3 October 1994
IDS Bulletin Volume 25 No. 3
Structural adjustment can be dated to the World Bank's 1981 Accelerated Development (Berg) Report, albeit precursor World Bank programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Togo, Malagasy Republic) date to the late 1970s.
1 July 1994
This paper investigates the causes of under-enrolment and low school quality in Africa, distinguishing between those related to the provision of schooling by the State, and those related to the demand for the service by households.
1 July 1994
25
This IDS Bulletin is concerned with the use and abuse of information in development planning and policy-making. The conventional wisdom that more and better information automatically leads to improved policy an practice is challenged.
1 May 1994
IDS Bulletin 47.6
The idea that ‘knowledge itself is power’ is not new; but at the global level, this dictum is now truer than ever, as a result of rapid advances in information technology in the North. Increasingly, knowledge (including the capacity to create it) is becoming a key economic input which, at...
26 April 1994
IDS Bulletin Vol. 25 Nos. 2
Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition-based estimate of minimum income or expenditure.
11 April 1994
1 April 1994
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Proposes an ideal-type model of decentralisation which consists of five interlocking and mutually reinforcing elements: localisation, flexibility, devolved management, organisational culture change, and democratisation.
1 March 1994