IDS working papers;91
World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia's export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia's exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures.
1 January 1999
IDS Working Paper 92
In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.
1 January 1999
IDS Working Paper 93
This paper shows that Kenya's leading hotels source 95% of their furniture from local manufacturers. And it shows why and how the buyers, that is the hotels and their designers, helped these manufacturers to produce customised furniture to international quality requirements.
1 January 1999
This report describes research on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods which was carried out in two villages in Mali, selected to represent the rainfed cereal and cotton producing regions.
1 January 1999
This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;97
Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or more criteria. These are, however, often based upon measurements of key welfare indicators, such as income or consumption, in a single time period. This paper investigates whether...
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;98
Despite widespread agreement that economic policy in developing countries should promote pro-poor growth, there is relatively little consensus regarding the definition of pro-poor growth.
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;101
What are the prospects that governments and political systems in developing countries will be pro-poor? This synthesis of a large research exercise offers a series of guidelines for thinking about specific cases. The most general guideline is 'don't be (so) gloomy'. Political analysis does not...
1 January 1999
Developing countries have joined the WTO in large numbers, in the expectation that its objectives of rule-based liberal trade will foster development. They will influence, and be affected by, the flurry of new negotiations scheduled for the turn of the millennium.
1 January 1999
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are fashionable. Many developing countries are, or are likely to become, involved In negotiating such arrangements. But do they advance or retard multilateralist and developmental objectives?
1 January 1999
The Uruguay Round began a process of reinforcing rules and liberalising trade in temperate agricultural goods. Developing countries in aggregate are likely to benefit eventually, but much work still has to be done and some states and socio-economic groups may face significant adjustment problems.
1 January 1999
The textile and clothing trade is of major importance for developing countries, including the poorest, and it will undergo substantial change over the next decade. The comprehensive system of protectionism, with the quantitative restrictions of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) at its heart, is...
1 January 1999
