Publication
Under-Enrolment and Low Quality in African Primary Schooling: Towards a Gender Sensitive Solution
IDS working papers;7
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;7
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;8
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;6
Any inquiry into the emergence of "civil society" in post-Mao China is
bedevilled both by ambiguity o f the term "civil society" itself and the complexity of the
historical process it is used to describe. This problem extends far beyond the Chinese
case, since the idea of "civil society" has...
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;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;2
"Participation" has three uses and meanings: cosmetic labelling, to look good, co-opting
practice, to secure local action and resources; and empowering process, to enable people
to take command and do things themselves. Its new popularity is part o f changes in
development rhetoric, thinking...
1 January 1994
IDS working papers;9
The paper explores post-modern currents in food security. It identifies three main
shifts in thinking about food security since the World Food Conference o f 1974: from
the global and the national to the household and the individual; from a food first
perspective to a livelihood perspective;...
1 January 1994
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Famine is a preventable tragedy. Unlike poverty or chronic food insecurity, famine could probably be eliminated rapidly by a quite simple set of policies. Such policies might be politically feasible. So the abolition of famine is a realistic goal, perhaps by the end of this decade.
1 October 1993
17
This paper outlines the dramatic return to Sudan of 150,000 men, women and children from Itang Refugee Camp in Ethiopia in June 1991. These people were pawns in Sudan's civil war, manipulated by governments, military forces and the media – a state of affairs that the international community...
1 September 1993
IDS Bulletin 47.2A
The author argues that conventional economics ignores or marginalises the role of power and politics which are crucial factors in conditioning the variable structure and performance of markets.
15 July 1993
24
Studies of reorganization among large firms, the focus of this IDS Bulletin, has been stimulated by the increasing dominance of Japanese industry and the attempts to introduce Japanese methods into Europe and North America.
3 May 1993
7 January 1993
1 January 1993
