Publications

Environmental Change, Development Challenges

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The late 1980s saw a phenomenal growth of international concern over the global environment. It has begun to influence politics both in industrially advanced countries and in the newly democratising countries of Eastern Europe.

Melissa Leach

Food Security and the Environment

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There is an obvious connection between poor people's food security and the preservation of the environment in which they live. Yet there is little consensus about the nature of this relationship. Unless their interactions are better understood, there is a danger that policies for environmental...

Melissa Leach

Gender, Production and Well-Being: Rethinking the Household Economy

This paper pulls together various criticisms of the neo-classical household model, from both within and outside the field of economics in order to move towards a more empirically-relevant approach to household analysis.

Naila Kabeer

Reduction of Absolute Poverty: A Priority Structural Adjustment

The Developmental Uses of Counterpart Funds

Simon Maxwell

Macroeconomic Aspects of Commodity Aid and Counterpart Funds in Sub-Saharan Africa

Commodity Aid and Counterpart Funds in Africa

The paper reports on a workshop on commodity aid and counterpart funds in Africa, held at IDS, Sussex, in January 1991.  Counterpart funds are local currency obtained from the sale of commodities or foreign exchange received as aid and over whose use the donor retains some control. They are of...

Simon Maxwell

Development Periodicals Index 1990

It contains articles dealing with economic and social conditions, problems and theory: works on education and agriculture are also included. Geographical coverage is limited to works on the Third World with special emphasis given to works published in the Third World itself.

Early Warning in the Sahel and Horn of Africa: The State of the Art: A Review of the Literature

An early warning system can be defined as a system of data collection to monitor access to food in order to provide timely notice when a food crisis threatens and thus to elicit appropriate response. This study reviews the prolific literature on early warning systems.

A Guide to Famine Early Warning and Food Information Systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa

This guide is the second of 3 volumes which examine the literature on early warning systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa. It aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all the major systems in the region.

Researching the Household: Methodological and Empirical Issues

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This issue of the IDS Bulletin arises from a workshop on 'Household Arrangements as a Factor in Adjustment' held at the IDS in January 1990. It was convened as a way of furthering work within the IDS on the gender dimension in the analysis of the social impact of structural adjustment in...

Foreign Investment Revisited

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