Publications

Globalisation and the Governance of the Environment

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It is sometimes argued that the term 'globalisation' is misleading because it describes a trend which is largely confined to the relations between a small number of highly industrialised states and firms operating within East Asia, North America and Europe.

Nationalising The Anti-Poverty Agenda?

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The New Poverty Agenda, along with many other neo-liberal orthodoxies of the 1980s and early 1990s is withering away as rapid political and ideological shifts take place at the global level and within the domain of international development policy. Whilst this IDS Bulletin celebrates that fact,...

Local Civil Society, Elections and Governance (Poland)

NGOs and the Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of Saptagram

IDS Discussion Paper;370

NGOs are increasingly concerned to scale up their impact, whilst donors look to them to help strengthen civil society. It is therefore important to assess the role of NGOs in promoting membership organisations.

NGOs and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of the Quilon Fishermen Welfare Society

IDS Discussion Paper;371

Recent shifts in NGO and donor priorities make it important to understand how NGOs promote membership organisations. As a means of exploring this issue, this paper uses the example of the largely successful NGO attempts to help South Indian fishermen organise in response to technical change.

Making Less Last Longer: Informal Safety Nets in Malawi

IDS Discussion Paper;373

Poor households in sub-Saharan Africa are of necessity adjusting to a bewildering array of radical changes in the policy environment within which they struggle to construct viable livelihoods.

Stephen Devereux

Famine in the Sudan: Causes, Preparedness and Response. A Political, Social and Economic Analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal Famine

IDS Discussion Paper;369

This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems.

Horticulture Commodity Chains: The Impact on the UK Market of the African Fresh Vegetable Industry

IDS Working Paper 96

Production of fresh vegetables for export has grown rapidly in a number of countries in sub-Saharan African over the past decade. The fresh vegetables trade has many of the characteristics of a buyer-driven global commodity chain. In such chains, retailers play the key role in governing the...

John Humphrey

The Emergence of Chinese Civil Society and its Significance to Governance

Anti-Poverty Programs

Civil Society and Governability in Mexico

Participatory Budgeting