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1 January 2009
Drought in Africa has been extensively researched, particularly from meteorological, agricultural, and food security perspectives....
1 January 2009
A study in three countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda) assessed progress against the Paris Principles for Aid Effectiveness (AE) in three sectors - water, health and education - to test the assumption that the water sector is lagging behind. The findings show that it is too simplistic to say that the water sector is lagging, although this may well be the case in some countries.
1 January 2009
1 January 2009
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
This book discusses the evolution of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and development policy and asks what happens after 2015? Framed around the MDGs, which are core to the new global development studies agenda MDGs are a very complex set of goals, targets and indicators.
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
The complex nature of the challenge posed by state-society relations to the realisation of citizenship rights in the poorer countries of the world reflects the incapacity or unwillingness on the part of the state to guarantee basic security of life and livelihoods to its citizens and its proneness to capture by powerful elites that perpetuate this state of affairs.
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
The distinction between developing and developed countries has long been central to development studies and to debates on development policy. In earlier decades, it was in many respects accurate, and was for many purposes useful. Although the world is still very much divided between rich and poor countries, relationships among countries have changed so much that the developingdeveloped country distinction has become an obstacle to understanding current problems and opportunities and, even more, to thinking productively about the future. It is time to stop using it. This paper suggests an alternative approach to country classification based on state capacity.
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
Over the past few years DFID have increased their efforts to promote social transfers and social protection. The outcomes and impacts of social transfers and social protection schemes and DFID-influencing activities vary greatly relative to the unique conditions that were applied in specific contexts. What has worked well in one context may work very differently under a different set of conditions in another context.
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
Deaths and other complications arising from unsafe abortions impose a huge cost on the lives and health of women living in developing countries. The economic impact is also enormous and is of considerable importance to public policy. But the data needed to accurately measure these costs are in short supply and unreliable.
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
The current study is a continuation of previous work by LogoLink, that advances understanding of the changing roles of social actors and their strategies in promoting local democratic environments that contribute to reducing poverty and exclusion. It draws on specially commissioned studies that look at two central dimensions: key actors, processes/strategies and the relationship between them.
1 January 2009
Published by: BRILL
This paper argues that religious affiliation (and not just gender) influences the hierarchy of rights attainable through Personal Status...
