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Faustian Bargains: Democratic Control of the Military Establishment

Published by: Manchester University Press

Fifty Years On: The UN and Economic and Social Development

Published by: IDS

Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, this IDS Bulletin assesses the present and future role of the UN system in such areas as global governance, development thinking, relations with the Bretton Woods institutions, food security, environment and other matters.

Instititutionalizing Women’s Interests and Accountability to Women in Development

Published by: IDS

Living with Uncertainty

Published by: Practical Action Publishing

The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This...

Fish and Feminists

Published by: IDS

Despite apparent acceptance of gender analysis within development organisations, this is still only rarely translated into gender-sensitive practice.

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin considers problems in institutionalising gender-sensitive development policy by exploring new gendered perspectives on the structure and functioning of development organisations, as well as strategies to improve their accountability to women.

Towards Democratic Governance

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin critically examine the implementation of various policies and programmes fostered by the good government agenda.

Gender equality, bilateral programme assistance and structural adjustment: policy and procedures

Published by: Elsevier

NGOs and Development: The Primacy of the Personal

Published by: IDS

Experience with PRA suggests that a reversal of the normally dominant behaviour and attitudes of outsiders is crucial for participatory development. To what extent would such changes resolve the problems of performance and accountability which currently concern so many NGOs?

Environmental Entitlements: An Outline Framework for Analysis, and a Mongolian Case Study

Published by: IDS

This paper highlights some pitfalls in the existing literature on poverty-environment linkages in developing countries and offers an alternative analytical approach based on the notion of 'environmental entitlements'.