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Trade Liberalisation, Poverty and Livelihoods: Understanding the Linkages

Published by: IDS

The main purpose of this paper is to review and assess key analytical approaches that are used to understand the linkages between trade, poverty and livelihoods, with a view to better understanding their linkages in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Poverty Monitoring and Targeting Using ROC Curves: Examples From Vietnam

Published by: IDS

This paper suggests a low cost methodology for identifying and assessing the accuracy of poverty monitoring and targeting indicators.

National Budgets, Social Spending and Public Choices: The Case of Bangladesh

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This exploratory study looks at the factors shaping the formulation and implementation of national budgets in Bangladesh with an emphasis on the determinants of public social spending.

Poverty, Knowledge and Policy Processes: A Case Study of Ugandan National Poverty Reduction Policy

Published by: IDS

This report, part of a broader research project on Poverty Knowledge and Policy Processes, concerns the poverty reduction policy process in Kampala, Uganda. It is based on an understanding of policy as a complex, dynamic process, rather than a linear progression of formulation and implementation.

The Future of Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) for Developing Countries in the WTO

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This Working Paper provides a background analysis of special and differential treatment (SDT). It argues that the underlying case for SDT remains intact even though the status quo is unsatisfactory.

Social Sector Priorities: An Analysis of Budgets and Expenditures in India in the 1990s

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This paper analyses social sector priorities of the Indian government in the period 1990-2001. This is done by a study of the most crucial policy documents: the annual budgets.

Gender and HIV/AIDS

This pack contains the following publications. (1) An overview report outlining the main issues, examples of good practice and...

Political Dimensions of County Government Budgeting in China: a Case Study

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This paper provides a discussion of the political dimensions of budgeting at the county level of Chinese government. Based on findings from field studies in three poverty-stricken counties in northwestern China, the research documents a rudimentary incrementalist budgeting system in the county governments.

The Politics of Educational Expansion in Bangladesh

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This paper offers an interpretation of why Bangladesh has so successfully expanded educational access. Part of the explanation of these successes lies in domestic politics: the argument here is that educational expansion in Bangladesh is most valuably understood as part of processes of nation- and state-building.

Mapping Accountability: Origins, Contexts and Implications for Development

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This paper provides an overview of the political uses and applications of the term accountability in contemporary discourses and practices of development. The first part reflects on the historical origins of competing narratives of accountability and what it means for actors, and the processes in which they are embedded, to be accountable.