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We Make the Law and the Law Makes Us: Some Ideas on a Law in Development Research Agenda

Published by: IDS

“Ain’t Misbehavin”: Beyond Awareness and Individual Behaviour Change

Published by: Zed Books

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance supports 'linking organizations' in various developing countries which, in turn, support local NGOs...

Realizing Rights: Transforming Approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Well-being

Published by: Zed Books

The Institutional Roots of Popular Mobilization: State Transformation and Rural Politics in Brazil and Chile, 1960–95

Published by: Routledge

The past thirty years in Latin America have produced tremendous transformations of the state's role in society, both in the scope of its...

The Manufacture of Popular Perceptions of Scarcity: Dams and Water-Related Narratives in Gujarat, India

This paper critically examines some narratives of water scarcity in Kutch, western India. It argues that images of dwindling rainfall...

Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster

Published by: Oxford University Press

New Approaches to Welfare Provision: New Institutional Economics, Politics and Political Economy

Published by: Clarendon Press for UNU/Wider

People in Communities Initiative: An Evaluation Report

Published by: Welsh Assembly Government

Reflections on the Kutch Earthquake

Despite the recent earthquake that wreaked havoc across Kutch, its people have long since learnt to cope with disasters and adapt their...

Bringing Citizen Voice and Client Focus into Service Delivery

Published by: IDS

This is a study of efforts to improve the responsiveness of public service providers to the needs of service users, particularly the poorest service users. This paper examines over sixty case studies of both public-sector reforms to foster stronger client focus in service delivery; and civil-society initiatives to demand improved services.