Publications

Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty

IDS working papers;99

This paper describes the measuring of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development for their citizens.

Peter P. Houtzager

Mick Moore

Learning from Global Buyers

IDS working papers;100

An increasing number of developing countries engage in contracting manufactutring for a decreasing number of global buyers. This constellation characterises many labour intensive export sectors. The positioning of developing country enterprises in such a buyer-driven chains occupies an...

Hubert Schmitz

Peter Knorringa

Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture

Health and Wellbeing

Private good = public gain? Has ethical pressure squared the circle?

What factors mainly influence the conduct of companies in relation to human development today? Social and ethical movements and pressure groups are widely credited with putting social responsibility, environmental care and civil rights on the corporate agenda.

Micro-Credit: Impact, Targeting and Sustainability

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This IDS Bulletin on 'Microfinance' has grown out of a workshop on 'Recent Research on Microfinance: Implications for Policy', held at IDS in February, 1998 and organised by the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS).

Transition to What? Restarting Development After Communism

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This IDS Bulletin examines the European and Asian countries which are reforming formally Communist centrally-planned economies and one-party states. It goes beyond the frequent preoccupation with monetary policy and measures of economic openness to examine a multi-faceted phenomenon involving...

Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Intervention and World Order

Money Can’t Buy Me Love? Re-evaluating Gender, Credit and Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

IDS Discussion Paper;363

Lending programmes for women have attracted a growing following in international development circles because they appear to hold out the promise of combining poverty reduction objectives with the goal of empowering women.

Naila Kabeer

Globalisation, Industrialisation and Sustainable Growth: The Pursuit of the Nth Rent

IDS Discussion Paper;365

Globalisation offers the potential to raise economic growth rates significantly. But at the same time, it also exposes firms and economies to intense competitive pressures. Declining terms of trade can result, and in some circumstances this may lead to immiserising growth, that is, an increase...

Enterprise Clusters in Africa: On the Way to Industrialisation?

IDS Discussion Paper;367

This paper reports the results of an analysis of eight African enterprise clusters: three in Kenya that were the subject of original research, and five others for which substantial secondary literature was available.