Publications

Global Science, Global Policy: Local to Global Policy Processes for Soils Management in Africa

IDS Working Paper 115

The creation and selling of ideas of global environmental crisis has been a core characteristic of the post-Rio decade. Global science and global policymaking processes are central to these crises.

Ian Scoones

James Keeley

Environmental Policymaking in Zimbabwe: Discourses, Science and Politics

IDS working papers;116

This paper asks why policy processes in Zimbabwe have consistently reinforced a highly technocratic approach to natural resources management, while excluding alternative perspectives and framings of problems for policy.

Ian Scoones

James Keeley

Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Ethiopia

This report describes research carried out at three research sites in the Southern Nation and Nationalities People's Region (SNNPR) of southern Ethiopia.

The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Markets Decisions in London and Dhaka

In this path breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade

Naila Kabeer

Glossary on Macroeconomics From a Gender Perspective

This glossary highlights the gender dimensions of key macroeconomic concepts and processes, and areas where gender is increasingly being considered in economic theory, policy formulation and evaluation.

Poverty Reduction Stategies: A Part for the Poor?

In a new approach announced by the World Bank and IMF, civil society is being offered a part in shaping and implementing national anti-poverty strategies.

Rosemary McGee

Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia During the 1990s

IDS working papers;114

Since the early 1990s, the Zambian government has undertaken major economic reforms. A sharp stabilisation early in the decade was followed by reforms in agricultural marketing, a large privatisation programme, sweeping trade policy reforms and reforms to the public sector.

Neil McCulloch

Genre Et Fréquentation Scolaire dans Lénseignement Elémentaire au Sénégal

This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses on Senegal

Gender and Primary Schooling in Zambia

This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses Zambia

Learning From Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

Participation has become a critical concept in development, increasingly employed in the planning and implementation of development programmes. Learning from Change takes participation one step further by exploring its use in the monitoring and evaluation of those programmes.

John Gaventa

Gender and Primary Schooling in Malawi

This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses Malawi

Migration and Livelihoods: Case Studies in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Mali

This paper describes processes of migration in seven sites in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Mali. It is part of a series of reports produced by the IDS-based multi-country comparative research programme on sustainable livelihoods.