Publications

A Trainers Guide to Participatory Learning and Action

Ian Scoones

John Thompson

True to this Earth: Global Challenges and Transforming Faith

Collective Efficiency: Growth Path for Small-Scale Industry

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This study is concerned with the growth of small local industry in developing countries and explores one particular route for understanding and fostering such growth. It focuses on the clustering of firms and the competitive advantage which they derive from local external economies and joint...

Hubert Schmitz

Environmental Entitlements: An Outline Framework for Analysis, and a Mongolian Case Study

IDS working papers;15

The uses and management o f renewable natural resources (RNRs), and their consequences fo r sustainability, are mediated in intended and unintended ways by institutional arrangements. This paper highlights some pitfalls in the existing literature on povertyenvironment linkages in developing...

General Versus Vocational Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Rates of Return Evidence

IDS working papers;23

The purpose o f this short article is to examine critically the current orthodoxy concerning social rates o f returns to general and vocational secondary education in developing countries. Since George Psacharopoulos has been the prime mover in establishing this orthodoxy, we shall focus in...

Export-oriented Industrialisation Through Primary Processing?

IDS working papers;19

Recent research suggests that East Asia's manufactured export success is not replicable in other developing countries, with lower skill/land ratios. This conclusion, however, is based on a narrow definition of manufactured exports. The present paper asks whether the chances of...

Using and Abusing Rates of Return: A Critique of the World Bank’s 1995 Education Sector Review

IDS working papers;22

Chinese Trade Unions in the Transition from Socialism: The emergence of Civil Society or the Road to Corporatism?

IDS working papers;18

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform

IDS working papers;17

Since 1950 China has transformed itself from the sick man of Asia' to a country with better than average health indices for its level of national income. This achievement was due to a number of factors including a dramatic fall in the prevalence of severe poverty, improvements in the rural...

British Manufacturing Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corporate Responses During Structural Adjustment

IDS Working Paper 13

A recently completed survey of British manufacturing investment in fourteen anglophone African countries indicates that there has been major disinvestment during the last five years. This process of corporate disengagement is occuring despite concerted attempts by African governments to...

How Will the EU’s Response to the GATT Round Affect Developing Countries?

IDS Working Paper 11

The paper makes an initial analysis of the trade policy changes that the EU will implement to give effect to its GATT Round commitments. It focuses mainly on tariff changes in three areas: industrial products of interest to developing countries, temperate agricultural products, and goods on...

Climatic warming and increased malaria incidence in Rwanda