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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.

Klaar Gesnap as Kleurling: The Attempted Making and Remaking of the Griqua People

Carrot or Stick? Redistributive Transfers Versus Policing in Contexts of Civil Unrest

Published by: IDS

Published by MICROCON, this paper provides a theoretical analysis in a dynamic setting of the merits of redistributive transfers in preventing the onset of (and reducing) civil unrest and compare it with policies of more direct intervention such as the use of police.

Migration and Social Protection: Exposing Problem of Access

Published by: Society for International Development

The need to manage risk and secure livelihoods can be the main driver of migration decisions; however, at the same time, a derived...

Childhood poverty, wellbeing and inter-generational transmission(s): Does Mixed Methods Research Matter to Understanding Childhood Well-being?

Published by: University of Bath

Sexuality Matters (Arabic version)

Published by: IDS

Other translations available are: English; French; Spanish; Chinese; Portuguese

Sexuality Matters (Chinese version)

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin addresses a theme that mainstream development has persistently neglected: sexuality. Over the last decade, development policymakers and practitioners have come to endorse a multi-dimensional approach to poverty, and growing attention has been placed on achieving greater freedom, wellbeing and human rights for all.

Friendship, Consumption, Morality: Practicing Identity, Negotiating Hierarchy in Middle Class Bangalore

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

This article examines the shared social and cultural practices of a group of young middle-class men in Bangalore.