Sustainability

General Versus Vocational Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of Rates of Return Evidence

IDS Working Paper 23

This is a critical examination of the current orthodoxy concerning social rates of returns to general and vocational secondary education in developing countries.

Rates of Return to Education in Asia: A Review of the Evidence

IDS working papers;24

The evidence for rates of return to education in Asian countries is examined in this paper.

Necessary, Sufficient or Irrelevant? Women, Wages and Intra-Household Power Relations in Urban Bangladesh

This paper examines whether women's access to income earning opportunities has implications for their position in intra-household relationships.

Naila Kabeer

Trade Between South Africa and Europe: Future Prospects and Policy Choices

IDS working papers;26

This paper reviews the bilateral trade policy options for South Africa and the EU in the context of current and prospective future flows.

Governance in the Post-Import Substitution Era: Perspectives for New Approaches to Create Systemic Competitiveness in Brazil

Brazil is one of many countries striving for international competitiveness. It is argued that sustained industrial competitiveness rests not only on firms' capabilities and a stable economic framework, but also on a supporting, sector-specific, specialised environment, in addition to targeted...

A Woman’s Fate is a Gourd’s Fate: Labour and Sexuality of Korean Married Women

This study shows that in Korea, husbands' attitudes, in particular the fear of infidelity, are an important factor in influencing women's access to paid work, but that women have resisted such control over their working conditions.

Impact of Economic and Institutional Reforms on the Health Sector in Laos: Implications for Health System Management

Laos suffered an economic crisis in the mid 1980s and has since been implementing a programme of economic and institutional reform. This report describes the Lao health system and analyses the impact of economic constraints and the reform programme on the health sector.

Economic Reform and Political Liberalization in Uganda

Uganda has been implementing simultaneous economic and political reforms since 1986. The interaction between these two sets of reforms is considered in this report which argues that political liberalization has not had a significant influence on the progress of economic reform.

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural Areas: Adapting to Economic and Institutional Reform in China

In-depth research in three poor counties in China provides a unique picture of the impact of economic and institutional reform on health services in areas where development lags behind the rest of the country.

Henry Lucas

Gerald Bloom

Gender and Environmental History: Moving Beyond the Narratives of the Past in Contemporary Women-Environment Policy Debates

Claims about history figure prominently in contemporary ecofeminist and activist concerns with gender and the environment. This paper addresses such claims and considers the historical narratives and their uses in contemporary gender-environment debates.

Melissa Leach

Gender Relations and Environmental Change

26

This IDS Bulletin moves beyond to emphasize the application of gender analysis to environmental relations: seeing women as differentiated and in relation to men; and paying attention to the links between gender relations with environmental activities, responsibilities and rights.

Melissa Leach

A Future Food Aid Regime: Implications of the Final Act of the GATT Uruguay Round

The conclusion of the GATT Uruguay Round and the setting up of the World Trade Organization provide a major opportunity for establishing a new food aid regime within a liberalising global economy.