Publications

EU Report on Village Self-Governance: 1-60, July

Programme Aid as an Appropriate Policy Response to Drought

IDS Working Paper 34

The traditional international response to drought has been to provide humanitarian relief, in particular food aid for direct distribution. The drought of 1991-92 in Southern Africa, however, saw a change from a response that was preoccupied with direct relief, to a response that incorporated...

Commons and Collectives: The Lack of Social Capital in Central Asia’s Land Reform

IDS working papers;40

When Livestock are Good for the Environment: Benefit-Sharing of Environmental Goods and Services

IDS working papers;45

Sustainability and Institutions: Catchwords or New Agenda for Ecologically Sound Development?

IDS working papers;48

Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s

IDS working papers;41

Privatisation of both the ownership and control o f state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is an increasingly central feature o f all national economic reform programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In those countries where SOEs have dominated all or most sectors o f the formal economy, comprehensive...

Fifty Years On: The UN and Economic and Social Development

26

Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, this IDS Bulletin assesses the present and future role of the UN system in such areas as global governance, development thinking, relations with the Bretton Woods institutions, food security, environment and other...

Richard Jolly

Instititutionalizing Women’s Interests and Accountability to Women in Development

26

Living with Uncertainty

The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas. With examples drawn from all...

Ian Scoones

Fish and Feminists

IDS Bulletin Vol. 26 Nos. 3

Despite apparent acceptance of gender analysis within development organisations, this is still only rarely translated into gender-sensitive practice.

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

26

This IDS Bulletin considers problems in institutionalising gender-sensitive development policy by exploring new gendered perspectives on the structure and functioning of development organisations, as well as strategies to improve their accountability to women.

Anne Marie Goetz

Towards Democratic Governance

26

The articles in this IDS Bulletin critically examine the implementation of various policies and programmes fostered by the good government agenda.