Publications

Does Local Co-operation Matter? Evidence from Industrial Clusters in South Asia and Latin America

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Inter-firm co-operation has been a major theme in the industrial cluster debate but has rarely been investigated systematically. Does it matter? What kind is most relevant? When is it most important? This paper draws together the results of four cluster studies from South Asia and Latin...

Hubert Schmitz

Enabling Environments: Do Anti-poverty Programmes Mobilise the Poor?

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How can 'friends of the poor' in government or other agencies design and manage their anti-poverty programmes to encourage mobilisation? We explore the options, point out the advantages and disadvantages of the more direct methods, and make a case for the indirect or parametric approach:...

Anuradha Joshi

Mick Moore

Fashioned forest pasts, occluded histories? International environmental analysis in West African locales

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This article considers how environmental problematics are produced and interpreted, using case material from West Africa’s humid forest zone. Examing the experiences of several countries over the long term, it is possible to identify a deforestation discourse produced through national and...

Melissa Leach

Food Insecurity in Ethiopia

A discussion paper for DFID Food insecurity in Ethiopia derives directly from dependence on undiversified livelihoods based on low-input, low-output rainfed agriculture. Ethiopian farmers do not produce enough food even in good rainfall years to meet consumption requirements. Given the...

Stephen Devereux

Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook

Auditing community participation looks at ways of assessing levels of community involvement in area regeneration initiatives.

Danny Burns

The State of Civil Society in Uganda: an Analysis of the Legal and Political-economic Aspects

Urban and Rural Differences in Primary School Attendance: An Empirical Study for Tanzania

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What’s the policy? Meanings, motives and the political economy of an emergent forest policy in Guinea, West Africa

Melissa Leach

Zimbabwe Country Paper

Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan

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Neil McCulloch

Social Movements amidst Democratic Transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian Countryside

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Democratic transitions represent unique opportunities in which movements of the poor can coalesce, place their demands on the national agenda, and institutionalise their access to authoritative decision-making centres. The opportunities and constraints movements of the poor face during...

Peter P. Houtzager

Social Safety Nets for Poverty Alleviation in Southern Africa

Many of Zambia’s poorest and most isolated communities live and farm around the floodplains in Western Province. Recurrent droughts and a lack of off-farm employment opportunities have entenched poverty and encouraged steady outmigration. Cash-for-work labour-intensive public works programmes...

Stephen Devereux