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Microfinance and Public Policy. Outreach, Performance and Efficiency

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

This book invites aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a more robust and reliable criterion that should guide their...

The Impact of China on Sub-Saharan Africa

Published by: IDS

This paper focuses on the rapidly-growing links between China and SSA. The spotlight is placed on three vectors of interaction - trade, foreign investment and aid. Chinese involvement in Africa is driven predominantly by the quest for material inputs (oil and other primary commodities) required for its infrastructural investments and booming manufacturing sector.

We Know What We Need’: South Asian Women Speak Out on Climate Change Adaptation

Published by: ActionAid

In order to that ensure adaptation financing mechanisms effectively support poor women's adaptation needs, this report makes a number of recommendations directed to country delegates negotiating adaptation financing and to the bodies responsible for the management of these funds.

Embedding Climate Change Adaptation in the Development Processes

Today climate change adaptation is a mainstream development issue. The UK Government-commissioned. Stern Review last year analysed the economics of adaptation and NGO campaigns have focused on its justice and equity dimensions. The challenge now is to embed adaptation within wider development debates and practices.

Climate Change Adaptation

Published by: IDS

This issue of In Focus comprises eight two-page briefing notes on a variety of topics related to adaptation. They draw on research conducted by IDS Fellows and their research partners to highlight ongoing work on reducing vulnerability and poverty in a changing climate.

Governance Reform and Institutional Change: Federalism and Tax in Brazil

Understanding Participation Through Science and Technology

Published by: IDS

Science and technology need society. But does society need science and technology? This is one of the questions posed in this issue of the IDS Bulletin, which brings together insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Development Studies (DS).

Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council

Published by: IDS

Brazil's participatory policy councils may have gained less international attention than Participatory Budgeting.

ORCHID: Piloting Climate Risk Screening in DFID Bangladesh: Summary Research Report

Published by: IDS

Manoeuvring past clientelism: Institutions and Incentives to Generate Constituencies in Support of Governance Reforms