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1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses public spending on education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over recent years, with a particular focus upon primary schooling. It identifies regional expenditure trends since 1980, and provides more detailed comparative data for selected countries over the 1990-95 period.
1 January 1998
Published by: Saferworld
The aim of this project has been to explore the dynamics of crop-livestock integration in contrasting agroecological settings in Africa through an analysis of the institutions which mediate change.
This research project entailed a comparative study of the contribution of civil society organisations to democratisation in Africa.
1 January 1997
Published by: IDS
The political dimensions of sustainable livelihoods are explored here, drawing on the livelihood adaptation literature in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus is on adaptation to short-term shocks and the negative consequences of longer-term change in livelihood strategies.
1 July 1996
Published by: IDS
Rural development thinking can no longer claim that conflict falls outside its mandate, according to this edition of the IDS Bulletin. The nature of warfare in Africa is changing dramatically. War is being used as an instrument of policy, and becoming a way of life in the worst affected areas, with civilians, not combatants, the most vulnerable.
1 January 1996
Published by: IDS
This paper examines why the banking system in Ghana was in need of reform in the 1980s and evaluates the impact of the financial sector reforms.
1 January 1996
Published by: IDS
Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is accelerating, according to this study, and has already progressed much further than previous reports have indicated. Up to now, the analysis of the privatisation in sub-Saharan Africa has been based on very incomplete and out of date data.
1 January 1995
Published by: IDS
Strengthening civil society through the provision of financial resources and technical assistance is viewed by aid donors as an effective means of fostering political pluralism and consolidating fragile democracies in developing countries.
5 December 1994
Published by: IDS
A recently completed survey of British manufacturing investment in fourteen anglophone African countries indicates that there has...