Transboundary animal disease and market access: future options for the beef industry in southern Africa
1 January 2008
IDS Bulletin 37.6
This article is about the operation of power in relationships between people working in the complex web of organisations involved in the giving and receiving of international aid. Intuitive reactions to the racial inequity I observed as a young child in post-colonial Africa suggest my...
1 January 2006
Introduction This report describes a pilot training programme on policy processes for veterinary services in Africa targeted at middle to senior level public sector livestock and animal health technocrats. The pilot training programme ran between September 2004 and February 2005 and was a...
1 March 2005
Decentralisation, like good governance or sustainable development, is one of those concepts everyone from the World Bank to top officials in national governments seem to think is a "good thing." But the meaning attached vary widely. And while donors and governments all want to support it - it is...
1 January 2003
IDS working papers;128
This Working Paper argues that armed conflicts have been the single most important determinant of poverty and human misery in Sub-Saharan Africa, affecting more than half the countries of the continent during the past two decades.
1 January 2001
IDS working papers;103
This is a review of the current thinking on issues of health and poverty in Africa. Its purpose is to provide the basis for a programme of work to support and design the implementation of pro-poor health strategies in Africa.
1 January 2000
IDS working papers;106
Trade in horticulture is an African success story. Kenyan and Zimbabwean producers are now well established in the value chain. The question now is how to maintain or improve upon this position in a highly competitive market.
1 January 2000
IDS Working Paper 115
The creation and selling of ideas of global environmental crisis has been a core characteristic of the post-Rio decade. Global science and global policymaking processes are central to these crises.
1 January 2000
IDS working papers;119
This paper describes programmes for developing effective leadership for change in agriculture and in the health sector in Africa. Aimed at top level public- and private- sector workers, the programmes exposes the participants to problem-solving strategies that they can apply to their own...
1 January 2000
IDS working papers;88
A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on 37 sectors in 12 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is used to explore the welfare effects and the changes in employment structure of the agreed SADC Free Trade Area (FTA).
1 January 1999
IDS working papers;96
1 January 1999
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.
1 January 1994
