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...
1 January 1994
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...
1 January 1994
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.
1 January 1994
Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.
1 January 1994
IDS Working Paper 1
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...
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;5
1 January 1994
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...
1 January 1994
This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.
1 January 1994
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,...
1 January 1994
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...
1 January 1994
The new Uruguay Round agreement, to be signed in Marrakech in April, establishes the framework for trade into the next century.
1 January 1994
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.
1 January 1994
