Publications

Achieving Gender Equality in a Plural Legal Context: Custom & Women’s Access to Land in Kenya

An Independent Voice? A Survey of Civil Society Organisations in South Africa, Their Funding and Their Influence Over the Policy Process

Keeping the Political In (A Response to ‘Chinese Women, Gender and Sexuality’, W. Jankowiak)

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Poverty and Well-being in Rural Bangladesh: Impact of Economic Growth and Rural Development

Martin Greeley

Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China

Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges for Social Services: A Case Study in Uganda

IDS working papers;86

This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of Uganda. It seeks to explore differences in the choice of provider and methods of funding care between the two districts, and the economic circumstances and...

How do Bangladesh Elites Understand Poverty?

IDS working papers;83

The poverty of most Bangladeshis is viewed as an important - but not urgent - issue by Bangladesh's elites. They do not feel threatened by the extent of poverty, or by poor people. Some sections of the elite appear to know little about the poor. The poor are instead viewed through a somewhat...

‘Putnam in India’: Is Social Capital A Meaningful and Measurable Concept at Indian State Level?

IDS working papers;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. Despite the long-standing debate this work...

Implementing A Sustainable Livelihoods Framework for Policy-Directed Research: Reflections from Practice in Mali

IDS working papers;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. The second is to place that field-level experience in the broader context of...

Famine in the Sudan : causes, preparedness and response : a political, social and economic analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal

IDS discussion papers;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. The famine emerged from a long history of exploitation and repression by successive...

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

IDS working papers;96

‘Making less last longer’: informal safety nets in Malawi

IDS discussion papers;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. In Malawi these changes include the removal of fertiliser subsidies and massive currency...