Publications

Introduction: Aid-effectiveness, Prisoners’ Dilemmas, and Country Allocation

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In theory – and in project and country experience – aid has proved its potential to stimulate growth, and sometimes to reduce poverty. But the record has been worsening, for four reasons.

Decentralisation: A Progress Report

Decentralisation and Democracy

The World Economy Since the War: The Politics of Uneven Development

This book, written by a former IDS Fellow, analyses the development and transformation of international organizations through the post-war boom, the ensuing recession, the changing strengths of the capitalist countries and the evolving crisis of development experienced in the Third World.

Developmental States in East Asia: Editorial Introduction

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The papers in this IDS Bulletin focus on different aspects of the historical experience of state economic involvement in three East Asian NICs, one socialist (China) and two capitalist (Taiwan and South Korea).

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s: Open Economies in a Closing World

This book explores the issues of industrial growth in the 1980s.

Law and Order Statistics in the Third World

IDS Discussion Paper;189

This paper is about the unreliability of crime statistics in developing countries. There are many operational, technical, institutional, social and cultural reasons for these inaccuracies. What the police do when an offence is reported and whether they treat it as a crime is the most...

Rural Development: Putting the Last First

The central theme of this book is that rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders, those who are not themselves rural and poor.

Robert Chambers

China’s New Development Strategy

In this book internationally recognized experts on China describe and evaluate recent changes, relating them to earlier policies and experience, the problems of developing countries generally and the process of change in other socialist countries.

Rural Technology, Rural Institutions and the Rural Poorest

Proceedings of a Workshop organized by the Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Comilla, Bangladesh, and IDS, Sussex, in February 1981.

Martin Greeley

Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty

The process which has led to this book was sparked off by the discovery in a seminar at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex that in both northern Nigeria and a part of Bangladesh there was a peak in births in the late wet season. This led organisers and participants...

Robert Chambers

Richard Longhurst

Public sector salaries policy in Africa and the Near East: the UK connection