Publications

Gender and Environmental History: From Representations of Women and Nature to Gender Analysis of Ecology and Politics

IDS working papers;16

Writing on imperial and colonial history has been heavily criticised, initially for its complete ignorance of women as historical subjects and, more recently, for its gender-blind methodology and hence failure to envisage history as a gendered experience.

Melissa Leach

Keeping it Real

A 20 minutes film made by at-risk teenagers from New York discussing teen pregnancy and the right to choose

Pauline Oosterhoff

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

This paper highlights some pitfalls in the existing literature on poverty-environment linkages in developing countries and offers an alternative analytical approach based on the notion of 'environmental entitlements'.

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

This paper considers how the systems of finance and management of rural health services have changed due to economic reforms.

Gerald Bloom

Henry Lucas

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

How can China's trade unions find a new role in an economy in which market relations are increasingly dominant, and to what extent will they be able to become part of a new 'civil society'? This paper addresses these issues, made urgent by the rapid pace of economic reform.

Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage and Testing Food Market Integration

IDS Working Paper 20

Conventional tests for food market integration ask whether prices in different locations move together. This paper develops an alternative and more reliable test methodology: the parity bounds model.

Health Expenditure and Finance in Three Poor Counties of China

IDS working papers;21

This paper contains reports on health expenditure and finance in the following poor counties in China: Donglan, in Guanxi; Shibing, in Guizhou; and Xunyi in Shaanxi.

Gerald Bloom

Henry Lucas

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

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Education Sector Review draws on rates of return to education research (RORE) to support policy recommendations within the education sector.

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

IDS Working Paper 23

This is a critical examination of the current orthodoxy concerning social rates of returns to general and vocational secondary education in developing countries.

Rates of Return to Education in Asia: A Review of the Evidence

IDS working papers;24

The evidence for rates of return to education in Asian countries is examined in this paper.

Necessary, Sufficient or Irrelevant? Women, Wages and Intra-Household Power Relations in Urban Bangladesh

This paper examines whether women's access to income earning opportunities has implications for their position in intra-household relationships.

Naila Kabeer

Trade Between South Africa and Europe: Future Prospects and Policy Choices

IDS working papers;26

This paper reviews the bilateral trade policy options for South Africa and the EU in the context of current and prospective future flows.