Publications

Counterpart Funds and Development

IDS Bulletin Vol. 23 Nos. 2

Counterpart funds play an important, growing and often controversial role in developing countries. The IDS Bulletin reviews the issues and connects counterpart funds to wider themes in development: poverty targeting, aid conditionality, the management of the budgetary process — and many...

Simon Maxwell

Poll Tax Rebellion

The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text and graphics, and drawing on the voices of activists and non-payers it describes the everyday organisation of local anti-poll tax...

Danny Burns

Botswana: Is the Economic Miracle Over?

The Unorthodox Response of the South African Economy to Changes in Macroeconomic Policy

Why is it Rational for Structural Reform to be Delayed an Irrationally Long Time?

David Leonard

The New Poverty Agenda: An Overview

Simon Maxwell & 2 others

Political Violence, Social Movements and the State in India

Gender, Politics and Identity at Times of Crisis: The Agitations Around Sati-Daha in India

The Influence of Trends in Barter Terms of Trade and of their Volatility on GNP Growth

Jerker Edström

Triple Roles, Gender Roles, Social Relations: The Political Sub-Text of Gender Training

Naila Kabeer

Engendering Adjustment or Adjusting Gender? Some New Approaches to Women and Development in Africa

Matthew Lockwood

Providing for the Rural Poor: Institutional Decay and Transformation in Uganda

After 1971 state-dominated rural services collapsed in Uganda. This study sets out the reasons for that collapse and the recent transformation of service provision under the National Resistance Movement government, and evaluates the performance of local government, the private sector,...