Publications

Assessment of the IDB Lending Programme, 1979-92

Commissioned by the Strategic Planning Office of the Inter-American Development Bank, this report provides an assessment of the IDB's lending programme for the period 1979-92. It offers policy recommendations on how to improve future lending activities and addresses issues concerning the role of...

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Financing Health Services in China: Adapting to Economic Reform

This report provides a detailed exploration of the impact of economic and institutional change on rural health services in China. It shows how the health sector's development has been influenced firstly by the command economy and, since the 1970s, by the transition to a market economy. Detailed...

Henry Lucas

Gerald Bloom

Quality of Public Health Services and Household Health Care Decisions in Rural Communes of Vietnam

The report describes a systematic household study of health care seeking behaviour and of the quality of commune health care in four rural communes in the north of Vietnam, during 1992-93.

A Policy Agenda for Post-Apartheid South Africa

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South Africa faces a series of critical and daunting developmental challenges in the post-aparthied era. This IDS Bulletin explores the lessons of policy formation in a comparative context. Contributions cover industrial and agricultural strategy, health and education policy, regional government...

Background Report on Gender Issues in Bangladesh

What is it like to be a woman in Bangladesh during times of socio-economic transformation? What forms of discrimination must women deal with on a daily basis? This report discusses the social, economic, political and legal status of women in Bangladesh and identifies the needs of women in...

Gender Profile of Zambia

What is the present state of gender relations in Zambia? Has economic recession and adjustment impacted differently on women and men? Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia has adopted structural adjustment and liberalisation measures in order to pull itself out of severe economic...

Gender and Education in Asia and the Pacific

This report reviews the Asian and Pacific experience of education of the last twenty years from a gender perspective, using statistical data. Regional overviews are given as well as more detailed analyses of trends since 1970 at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in literacy.

Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power, and Control over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh

Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.

Anne Marie Goetz

Skill, Land and Trade: A Simple Analytical Framework

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This paper proposes a minimal model of the relationship between human resources and foreign trade in developing countries, aimed at making it easier for economists working in these two fields to communicate with one another. The model combines familiar ingredients in a framework which is...

Does Educating Girls Improve Export Opportunities?

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Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force

This book is the result of a 1984 World Bank/IMF commissioned study on the effectiveness of aid. It finds that most aid succeeds in terms of its own objectives and obtains a reasonable rate of return. It compares unsuccessful aid projects with other forms of investment and proposes measures for...

Rainforest Relations: Gender and Resource Use Among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone

This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.

Melissa Leach