Publications

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

Conventional Weapons, Conventional Wars: The Need for an Expanded Arms Control Agenda

Roger Williamson

Trade and Development Strategy Options for the Poorest Countries: A Preliminary Investigation

IDS working papers;12

The paper aims to provoke thought on the apparent entrapment of the poorest countries in a vicious circle of self-perpetuating backwardness. It begins with a selective review of the debate on growth failure, covering conventional and structuralist arguments and new growth theory.

Exporting Manufactures: Trade Policy or Human Resources?

IDS working papers;4

Whether a country exports manufactures or primary products is determined mainly by the skill level of its labour force, relative to the extent of its natural resources. This proposition is derived from a modified version of Heckscher-Ohlin theory, and strongly supported by econometric evidence....

The Poor and the Environment: Whose Reality Counts?

IDS working papers;3

Sustainable rural livelihoods will be needed for many more people in the 21st century. Three widespread views tend to mislead and need to be qualified: that more people in rural areas is always and necessarily bad for the environment; that poor people inherently take the short-term view; and...