Publications

Complex Political Emergencies and the State

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It is argued that an understanding of the role and nature of the state and of processes of state collapse are vital for understanding Complex Political Emergencies for various practical reasons and for drawing general lessons from particular experiences: CPEs are often rooted in prior state...

Robin Luckham

Constraints on Civil Society Efforts to Curb Corruption

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Anne Marie Goetz

Facing the New Competition: Business Associations in Developing Country Industrial Clusters

From Ascribed to Earned Trust in Exporting Clusters

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This paper is concerned with the role of trust in export manufacturing. It asks how trust has developed in two industrial clusters which are located in developing countries and export most of their output to North America and Europe. The main conclusion is that trust was based initially on...

Hubert Schmitz

Accounts and Accountability: Theoretical Implications of the Right to Information Movement in India

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Anne Marie Goetz

Achieving Gender Equality in a Plural Legal Context: Custom & Women’s Access to Land in Kenya

An Independent Voice? A Survey of Civil Society Organisations in South Africa, Their Funding and Their Influence Over the Policy Process

Keeping the Political In (A Response to ‘Chinese Women, Gender and Sexuality’, W. Jankowiak)

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Poverty and Well-being in Rural Bangladesh: Impact of Economic Growth and Rural Development

Martin Greeley

Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China

Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges for Social Services: A Case Study in Uganda

IDS working papers;86

This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of Uganda. It seeks to explore differences in the choice of provider and methods of funding care between the two districts, and the economic circumstances and...

How do Bangladesh Elites Understand Poverty?

IDS working papers;83

The poverty of most Bangladeshis is viewed as an important - but not urgent - issue by Bangladesh's elites. They do not feel threatened by the extent of poverty, or by poor people. Some sections of the elite appear to know little about the poor. The poor are instead viewed through a somewhat...