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The Gentle Giant of UN Development Economists

Of the many economists who have worked for the United Nations, Hans W. Singer was the one who did more, and for more different parts of...

The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: A Review of Experiences and Current Debates

Published by: University of South Africa

The Role of Children and Youth in Communicating Disaster Risk

Published by: Colorado State University

Veterinary Medicine: The Slow Road to Community and Private Sector Participation

Published by: IDS

Zimbabwe: Market access policy options for FMD-challenges Zimbabwe

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.