Sustainability

The Poor and the Environment: Whose Reality Counts?

This paper argues that it is the rich and powerful who do most environmental damage. Blaming poor victims of environmental degradation can lead to policies which do more harm than good.

Robert Chambers

Gender and Education in Asia and the Pacific

This report reviews the Asian and Pacific experience of education of the last twenty years from a gender perspective, using statistical data. Regional overviews are given as well as more detailed analyses of trends since 1970 at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in literacy.

Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power, and Control over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh

Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.

Anne Marie Goetz

Skill, Land and Trade: A Simple Analytical Framework

IDS Working Paper 1

This paper proposes a minimal model of the relationship between human resources and foreign trade in developing countries, aimed at making it easier for economists working in these two fields to communicate with one another. The model combines familiar ingredients in a framework which is...

Does Educating Girls Improve Export Opportunities?

IDS working papers;5

Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force

This book is the result of a 1984 World Bank/IMF commissioned study on the effectiveness of aid. It finds that most aid succeeds in terms of its own objectives and obtains a reasonable rate of return. It compares unsuccessful aid projects with other forms of investment and proposes measures for...

Rainforest Relations: Gender and Resource Use Among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone

This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.

Melissa Leach

Beyond Farmer First: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

This book describes the ideological and political process that is agricultural development. It points towards more practical strategies for developing effective and equitable partnerships between indigenous knowledge systems through adaptive, people-centred, agricultural research and extension,...

Ian Scoones

John Thompson

Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought

This collection forms a critique of conventional development concepts from a gender perspective. It traces the emergence of 'women' as an analytical category in development thought, and the gradual shift to a focus on gender and gender relations.

Naila Kabeer

The Public Health Sector in Mozambique: a Post-war Strategy for Rehabilitation and Sustained Development

Africa to 2000 and Beyond: Imperative Political and Economic Agenda

This book examines the major causes of Africa's economic and social crisis, which although recognized and widely discussed from the early 1980s, not only continues unabated but has become a dynamic and self-reinforcing process. The authors present an economic and political agenda in which...

After the GATT Uruguay Round: Implications for Developing Countries

The new Uruguay Round agreement, to be signed in Marrakech in April, establishes the framework for trade into the next century.