Publications

Coping with the Costs of Severe Illness in Rural China

IDS working papers;58

This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding how households cope with the costs of severe illness and high medical fees. It presents the findings of a follow-up study of a household health expenditure survey in rural China.

Gerald Bloom

Social Capital and Export Growth: An Industrial Community in Southern Brazil

This paper explores the relevance of social capital for industrial development by way of a case study. The paper shows that there are causal connections both ways and that these connections only become apparent by adopting an historical approach.

Hubert Schmitz

Luiza Bazan

Gender and Primary Schooling in Tanzania

Tanzania is a country with a strong stated commitment to the goals of schooling for all, and of achieving gender equity within education. Economic difficulties over recent years have, however, meant that progress towards these goals has been slow.

Who Changes? Institutionalizing Participation in Development

Drawing on experiences from key development agences around the globe, 'Who Changes?' focuses on the institutional change needed to make participation a reality.

Robert Chambers

The Internal Heterogeneity of Industrial Districts in Italy, Brazil and Mexico

IDS working papers;59

Industrial districts have attracted the attention of development economists in search for new models of industrial development. Many case studies have shown that clustering helps local enterprises to overcome growth constraints and compete in distant markets.

Hubert Schmitz

Roberta Rabellotti

Rehabilitation in Complex Political Emergencies: Is Rebuilding Civil Society the Answer?

IDS working papers;60

The paper examines the challenge of rehabilitation from complex political emergencies (CPEs) and identifies a strategy that is characterised as a civil society rebuilding approach. It focuses on Somalia and a case study of a CARE project that aims to build the capacity of local NGOs.

Impact of Structural Adjustment on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Review of the Literature

IDS working papers;62

This paper reviews the impact of structural adjustment on sustainability of rural livelihoods. It unpacks the elements of adjustment and looks at the effects of each of these on the quantity, quality and sustainability of rural livelihoods.

Crop-Livestock Integration: The Dynamics of Intensification in Contrasting Agroecological Zones: A Review

IDS working papers;63

This paper examines crop-livestock integration, one of the key dynamics in the process of agricultural intensification. It traces the history of the 'mixed farming' concept, and describes the conventional trajectory of integration of crop and livestock sectors on smallholder farms, as well as...

Migration and Sustainable Livelihoods: A Critical Review of the Literature

IDS working papers;65

This paper focuses on the links between migration and sustainable livelihoods, looking in particular at the institutional factors that connect the two.

Deprivation in the North and the South: An Annotated Bibliography on Poverty and Social Exclusion

During the 1980s, new concepts and policies have emerged to explain and combat poverty, inequality, and social disintegration. Within Europe, 'social exclusion' has rapidly become part of debates on deprivation.

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

Gender and Development' policies have been promoted in development organizations for almost three decades now, but often the feminist ambitions for these policies fall away as they are processed through development institutions.

Anne Marie Goetz

Guide to Environment and Development Sources of Information on CD-ROM and the Internet

Information is the glue that binds our complex and fast changing world together and it is the key to changing long established patterns of social behaviour. Information, especially on environmental management for sustainable development, can provide support to countries and communities for an...