Publications

Governance in Global Value Chains

IDS Bulletin Vol. 32 Nos. 3

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 coordination...

John Humphrey

Hubert Schmitz

How health workers earn a living in China

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Health workers earned the same salary throughout China during the period of the command economy. Differences in earnings have grown substantially since then. Some health facilities supplement basic government salaries with substantial bonuses financed out of earned revenues, whilst others...

Gerald Bloom

Initial Review of PRSP Documentation

Henry Lucas

Land Reform and Farm Choice in Romania

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Individual and small-scale cooperative farming can be attractive options for new landholders in Romania. However, it is likely that many are locked into less-productive collective arrangements.

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Linking learning environments through agricultural experience – enhancing the learning process in rural primary schools

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Livelihood Insecurity and Social Protection: A Re-emerging Issue in Rural Development

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Risk and vulnerability have been rediscovered as key features of rural livelihoods and poverty, and are currently a focus of policy attention. The poor themselves try to manage uncertainty using a variety of ex‐ante and ex‐post risk management strategies, and through community support...

Stephen Devereux

Making Law Matter: Rights, Rules and Security in the Live of the Poor

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After a hiatus, law has re-emerged onto the international development agenda. A number of reasons are suggested: first, the 'good governance' policies advocated by the international donor community see reform of the state and its relations with society as key elements in promoting market-led growth.

Peter P. Houtzager

Richard Crook

Ouch! Western feminists’ ‘wounded attachment’ to the ‘third world prostitute’

Sen’s Entitlement Approach: Critiques and Counter-critiques

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Twenty years after Poverty and Famines elaborated the entitlement approach as an innovative and holistic approach to famine analysis, debates about some of its fundamental assertions remain unresolved. This paper examines four limitations acknowledged by Sen himself: starvation by choice,...

Stephen Devereux

Poverty, Civil Society and Patronage: a Study of Two Farmers’ Associations in North West Province

A Brazilian Perspective on Reform of the International Financial Architecture

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