Publications

Global trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

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Marzia Fontana

The effects of monetary policy on the balance of payments in Fiji

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Marzia Fontana

Growth Effects of Anticipated Trade Liberalization and the Baldwin Multiplier

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According to Baldwin (1992)[Baldwin, R.E., 1992. Measurable dynamic gains from trade. Journal of Political Economy 100, 162–174] trade liberalization induces a medium-run investment-led growth process. This note points out that Baldwin's own model would actually predict a significant initial...

Dirk Willenbockel

NGOs and Voluntary Organisations: North and South Learning From Each Other

Popular versus Liberal Democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania

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This article takes issue with those analyses of ‘developmental democracy’ which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of...

Robin Luckham

Corruption and Development: An Introduction

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Educational attainments and household characteristics in Tanzania

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‘Money can’t buy me love?’: Re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in rural Bangladesh

IDS discussion papers;363

Credit programmes have become an increasingly important intervention for addressing poverty both in Bangladesh, and elsewhere, as a result of successive evaluations attesting to their important developmental benefits. The success of these programmes lies largely in the provision of subsidised...

Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy in Nigeria

IDS working papers;68

This paper reviews the impact of financial liberalisation on monetary policy in Nigeria, examining in particular the progress made in the transition from direct to indirect forms of monetary management. While recognising the inherent shortcomings of the previous direct control system, it...

Globalisation and Wage Inequalities, 1870-1970

IDS working papers;73

This paper studies the impact of globalisation on wage inequality in eight now-developed countries during the century prior to 1970, using the same dependent variable and methodology as research on the impact of globalisation since 1970. The results suggest that the impact of globalisation...

Food for Work in Ethiopia: Challenging the Scope of Project Evaluations

IDS working papers;81

Evaluations of the numerous Food-for-Work (FFW) projects in operation across Ethiopia are designed to assess their effectiveness, and are often defined by the objectives stated in the terms of reference. The paper asserts that the quality and usefulness of evaluations is greatly enhanced when...

How Can We Know What They Want? Understanding Local Perceptions and Ill-Being in Asia

IDS working papers;80

Aid donors are increasingly focused on poverty eradication and influenced by the principle of participation. They would like more insight into how poor people in poor countries understand the character, causes, correlates and cures of poverty and deprivation. Such information would in...