Publications

Beyond Farmer First: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

This book describes the ideological and political process that is agricultural development. It points towards more practical strategies for developing effective and equitable partnerships between indigenous knowledge systems through adaptive, people-centred, agricultural research and extension,...

Ian Scoones

John Thompson

Africa to 2000 and Beyond: Imperative Political and Economic Agenda

This book examines the major causes of Africa's economic and social crisis, which although recognized and widely discussed from the early 1980s, not only continues unabated but has become a dynamic and self-reinforcing process. The authors present an economic and political agenda in which...

After the GATT Uruguay Round: Implications for Developing Countries

The new Uruguay Round agreement, to be signed in Marrakech in April, establishes the framework for trade into the next century.

Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought

This collection forms a critique of conventional development concepts from a gender perspective. It traces the emergence of 'women' as an analytical category in development thought, and the gradual shift to a focus on gender and gender relations.

Naila Kabeer

The Public Health Sector in Mozambique: a Post-war Strategy for Rehabilitation and Sustained Development

Local Budgeting in Practise

Danny Burns

The Politics of Decentralisation: Revitalising Local Government

This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing nature of public service management and the possibilities for new kinds of public involvement in government decision-making. It draws on a wide range of...

Danny Burns

Rates of Return to Education: Does the Conventional Pattern Prevail in Sub-Saharan Africa?

IDS working papers;10

In his most recent review of rates of return to education (RORE), George Psacharopoulos reaffirms that the conventional pattern of continent-wide aggregate social and private ROREs continues to prevail among both developed and developing countries.

How will the EU Response to the GATT Round Affect Developing Countries?

IDS working papers;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.

Applied General Equilibrium Modelling: Imperfect Competition and European Integration

Dirk Willenbockel

Beyond Farmer First: Rural Peoples’ Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

Ian Scoones

John Thompson

My Kind of Girl

This video documentary explores male and female privileges of drag queens and kings in New York.

Pauline Oosterhoff