Publications

Linking Relief and Development

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The basic idea of linking relief and development is simple and sensible. But what is involved in practice and what are the barriers preventing it? This IDS Bulletin presents a collection of articles on the issues involved, a number of case studies, and perspectives from several leading...

Simon Maxwell

The Structural Adjustment of Structural Adjustment: SSA 1980-1993

IDS Bulletin Volume 25 No. 3

Structural adjustment can be dated to the World Bank's 1981 Accelerated Development (Berg) Report, albeit precursor World Bank programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Togo, Malagasy Republic) date to the late 1970s.

Under-Enrolment and Low Quality in African Primary Schooling: Towards a Gender-Sensitive Solution

This paper investigates the causes of under-enrolment and low school quality in Africa, distinguishing between those related to the provision of schooling by the State, and those related to the demand for the service by households.

NGOs and Development: The Primacy of the Personal

IDS Working Papers;14

Experience with PRA suggests that a reversal of the normally dominant behaviour and attitudes of outsiders is crucial for participatory development. To what extent would such changes resolve the problems of performance and accountability which currently concern so many NGOs?

Robert Chambers

Knowledge is Power? The Use and Abuse of Information in Development

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This IDS Bulletin is concerned with the use and abuse of information in development planning and policy-making. The conventional wisdom that more and better information automatically leads to improved policy an practice is challenged.

Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Power

IDS Bulletin 47.6

The idea that ‘knowledge itself is power’ is not new; but at the global level, this dictum is now truer than ever, as a result of rapid advances in information technology in the North. Increasingly, knowledge (including the capacity to create it) is becoming a key economic input which, at...

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

IDS Bulletin Vol. 25 Nos. 2

Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition-based estimate of minimum income or expenditure.

Martin Greeley

Exporting Manufactures: Trade Policy or Human Resources?

A Framework for Understanding Area-based Decentralisation

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Proposes an ideal-type model of decentralisation which consists of five interlocking and mutually reinforcing elements: localisation, flexibility, devolved management, organisational culture change, and democratisation.

Danny Burns

The Poor and the Environment: Whose Reality Counts?

This paper argues that it is the rich and powerful who do most environmental damage. Blaming poor victims of environmental degradation can lead to policies which do more harm than good.

Robert Chambers

Industrial Clusters in Less Developed Countries: Review of Experiences and Research Agenda

The purpose of this paper is to take stock of what is known about industrial clusters in LDCs and to put forward an agenda for further research. The paper shows that clustering (sectoral and geographical concentration) is common in a wide range of countries and sectors. The way clusters are...

Hubert Schmitz

Khalid Nadvi

South African Industrial Performance and Structure in a Comparative Context

The discussion which follows in this paper rests heavily on an analysis of comparative data on manufacturing performance in South Africa and other countries. To ease the process of reading, the tables and the figures which underlie the verbal discussion are produced as separate sections.  The...

Raphael Kaplinsky