Publications

Vocational Education and Training in Zimbabwe: The Role of Private Sector Provision in the Context of Economic Reform

IDS working papers;74

This paper presents and discusses the results of empirical research into the provision of vocational training by private sector training institutions (PSTIs) in Zimbabwe. Representative samples of registered and non-registered PSTIs in Harare were surveyed in early 1997. With economic...

Gender Inequalities in Primary Schooling: The Roles of Poverty and Adverse Cultural Practice

IDS working papers;78

This paper suggests a simple model for the relationships between poverty, schooling and gender inequality. It argues that poverty - at both national and household levels - is associated with an under-enrolment of school-age children, but that the gendered outcomes of such under-enrolment are the...

Community Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict?

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Community-based sustainable development' has become a central approach to rural development and natural resource management. But this emerging consensus tends to overlook both ecological variability, and the potential for conflict within local communities

Ian Scoones

Melissa Leach

Tactics and Trade-offs: Revisiting the Links Between Gender and Poverty

IDS Bulletin 47.1A

This IDS Bulletin brings together a range of contributions analysing the interaction between gender and poverty from different disciplinary perspectives.

Naila Kabeer

Urban Poverty: A New Research Agenda

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The developing world is urbanising fast, and urban poverty is on the increase. By 2025, it is estimated that 57% of the population in less developed countries will be living in urban areas.

Approaches to Institutionalising Gender

Participatory Video: A Practical Guide to Using Video Creatively in Group Development Work

Participatory Video is a comprehensive guide to using video in group development work. Based on an innovative approach researched over twelve years, the book sets out a complete programme for workers in a range of settings, and features over 60 exercises, explaining clearly the procedure to...

Jackie Shaw

Environmental Entitlements: A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change

IDS Discussion Paper 359

This overview paper seeks to complement and add to emerging critiques of 'community-based sustainable development' by focusing on the implications of intra-community dynamics and ecological heterogeneity

Ian Scoones

Melissa Leach

Household Food Security in Malawi

IDS Discussion Paper;362

Malawi is characterised in food security discourse as a paradigmatic case of incipient malthusian crisis in rural Africa. Malawians enjoy few employment alternatives to agriculture, economic liberalisation has created new patterns of opportunity for some but increased marginalisation for others.

Stephen Devereux

Introduction

IDS Bulletin Vol. 37 Nos. 2

In Search of Alternatives to Prison Sentencing

Health in Transition: Reforming China’s Rural Health Services

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This issue of the IDS Bulletin asks whether China will be able to maintain cost-effective rural health services as it is transformed into a market economy. The papers were prepared as contributions to an intense debate underway in China.

Gerald Bloom