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The Double Bind: A Gender Analysis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement
Published by: Sage
This paper offers conceptual, practical and political perspectives on issues of gender, displacement and resettlement. It argues that...
Between Coercion and Contract: Competing Narratives around Taxation and Governance
Published by: CUP
This chapter is motivated by some important facts, some stimulating theory and an urgent policy concern. The facts are that, relative to...
Tax Reform and State Building in a Globalized World
Published by: CUP
How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that there...
Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers
Published by: IDS
Participatory approaches and methods can generate quantitative as well as qualitative data. Mainly since the early 1990s, a quiet tide of innovation has developed a rich range of participatory ways, many of them visual and tangible, by which local people themselves produce numbers.
China: Its Impact on the Developing Asian Economies
Published by: IDS
The rapid growth of East Asia, with China at its centre, has attracted global attention. Many authors have emphasised the emergence of regional production systems and the spread of high rates of growth across a large number of Asian economies. Nevertheless, the East Asian regional production system has not benefited all countries in the region equally.
Whose Sexualities Count: Poverty Participation and Sexual Rights
Published by: IDS
Sexuality and sexual rights have generally been treated as secondary to 'more important matters' such as poverty. The first part of this paper explores the linkages between sexuality and other areas which are considered to be priorities in development, such as health, education, work, migration and political participation. It shows that sexuality is about so much more than sex.
Neopatrimonial Politics, Decentralisation and Local Government: Uganda and Malawi in 2006
Published by: Overseas Development Institute
This study is part of a larger, two-year programme of research on Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction, which is expected to improve the design and implementation of Irish Aid’s development and governance programmes in poorly performing hybrid states.
Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation
Published by: International Finance Corporation
Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation' explores whether such emerging economy firms are also managing to embed sustainability in their business strategies in ways that stand comparison with companies anywhere else in the world.