IDS working papers;87
The collective efficiency model contends that joint action is essential for coping with new challenges. This paper discusses how enterprises in the Lake Victoria fish cluster operate, interact and address common challenges facing the industry. It suggests that the lack of effective institutions...
1 January 1999
IDS Working Paper 90
This paper has two objectives. The first is to discuss the experience of carrying out research in a village in Mali as part of a multi-country, comparative research programme on the theme of Sustainable Livelihoods.
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;89
Environmental policies in developing countries are increasingly criticised for being predicated on highly questionable assumptions.
1 January 1999
Illustrated with case studies on Bangladesh, Brazil and Uganda, this report highlights that there are gender differences in vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
1 January 1999
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;88
A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on 37 sectors in 12 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is used to explore the welfare effects and the changes in employment structure of the agreed SADC Free Trade Area (FTA).
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;91
World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia's export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia's exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures.
1 January 1999
IDS Working Paper 92
In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.
1 January 1999
IDS Working Paper 93
This paper shows that Kenya's leading hotels source 95% of their furniture from local manufacturers. And it shows why and how the buyers, that is the hotels and their designers, helped these manufacturers to produce customised furniture to international quality requirements.
1 January 1999
This report describes research on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods which was carried out in two villages in Mali, selected to represent the rainfed cereal and cotton producing regions.
1 January 1999
This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;97
Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or more criteria. These are, however, often based upon measurements of key welfare indicators, such as income or consumption, in a single time period. This paper investigates whether...
1 January 1999
