Publications

Genre Et Fréquentation Scolaire au Premiere Cycle de Lénseignement Fondamental au Mali

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

Gender and Primary Schooling in Ghana

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

Gender and Primary Schooling in Uganda

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

Analysing Policy for Sustainable Livelihoods

This report argues that it is possible to use the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as a starting point for bridging the gap between bottom-up livelihoods analysis and top-down policy analysis.

Leadership for Kufufuka Kwa Afrika: African Transformation as a Leadership Challenge

IDS working papers;119

This paper describes programmes for developing effective leadership for change in agriculture and in the health sector in Africa. Aimed at top level public- and private- sector workers, the programmes exposes the participants to problem-solving strategies that they can apply to their own...

Accountablity Through Participation: Developing Workable Partnership Models in the Health Sector

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In recent years there has been a major shift in attitudes from viewing communities as passive recipients of health care, to adoption of new approaches seeking to make more of the potential that active community participation might offer for enhanced accountability and improved responsiveness of...

Andrea Cornwall

Henry Lucas

Agricultural Intensification in Ethiopia and Mali

Agricultural intensification, in all its different forms, is one of the three major strategies adopted by households in order to attain a livelihood. This paper presents research findings on agricultural intensification from Ethiopia and Mali field research carried out under the Sustainable...

Governance and Upgrading: Linking Industrial Cluster and Global Value Chain Research

IDS working papers;120

What is the scope for local upgrading strategies where producers operate in global value chains? This paper examines the interaction of global chain governance and local industrial cluster governance and unpacks the key issue of whether insertion in a global value chain enhances or undermines...

John Humphrey

Hubert Schmitz

Healthcare Seeking Behaviour in Asian Transitional Economies: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography

The focus of this literature review and bibliography is household healthcare seeking behaviour (HCSB) in poor rural communities of Asian transitional economies in general and Vietnam in particular.

Economic Reform and Economic Performance: Evidence from 20 Developing Countries

IDS discussion papers;376

Do adjustment policies assist or retard growth? This paper presents data on economic performance (aggregate and sectoral growth, inflation, investment and external account) for 20 countries.

Health Reformers’ Response to Zambia’s Childhood Mortality Crisis

IDS working papers;121

This study examines the reasons for the rise in the Zambian under-five mortality during the 1990s, paying particular attention to the relevance and effectiveness of health sector reform strategies and their impact on ordinary Zambians.

Unemployment, Poverty and Gender in Urban China: Perceptions and Experiences of Laid Off Workers in Three Chinese Cities

This report is part of a project to explore the changing nature of poverty and vulnerability in urban China and the appropriateness of the government's policy responses.