Sustainability

To the Hands of the Poor: Water and Trees

To the Hands of the Poor explores how poor people can gain more from rural India's vast and often underestimated potential from groundwater and from growing trees. Starting with the livelihoods and priorities of the poor themselves, the authors use empirical evidence and practical political...

Robert Chambers

Economic Development and World Debt

This book contains a rare selection of divergent theoretical and practical views on the acute problem of international debt and its repercussions on world economic growth at large and the developing countries in particular.

Adjusting Education to Economic Crisis

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Over the last two decades the winds have become more persistently chilling for many developing countries whose economies have fallen into the throes of profound and unprecedented economic crises.

Decentralisation

Danny Burns

Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia

The many billions of dollars invested in canal irrigation in recent decades have had disappointing results. Rarely have projected benefits in well-being or production been achieved. In consequence, in the mid-1980s, further vast sums are being spent throughout the Third World on programmes for...

Robert Chambers

Agricultural Pricing Policy in Africa: Four Country Case Studies

This book contains a detailed analysis of agricultural marketing policy and its consequences in Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Case studies explore the various effects of these policies on farmers' livelihoods.

Insecticide use and increased mortality in rural Central Luzon, Philippines

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally. Despite notable successes there is doubt and criticism about the...

Micro-Electronics and Employment Revisited: A Review

This study looks at the direct and indirect effects of micro-electronics, and attempts to show how patterns of employment are linked to various aspects of the micro-electronic revolution.

Gender and Work in the Third World: Sexual Divisions in Brazilian Industry

Brazil, one of the Third World's most industrialized countries, is used as the focus for this in-depth case study which looks at domestic labour, family ideologies, and the distinctive working careers of women and men.

John Humphrey

Adjustment with a Human Face Volume 1 – Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

After three decades of progress in improving child welfare, there was a marked reversal in many parts of the world in the 1980s, associated with the deteriorating economic situation. This study illustrates the extent of the crisis and indicates ways to avoid or alleviate the ill-effects of...

Richard Jolly

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.