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Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan

Social Movements amidst Democratic Transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian Countryside

Democratic transitions represent unique opportunities in which movements of the poor can coalesce, place their demands on the...

Social Safety Nets for Poverty Alleviation in Southern Africa

Many of Zambia’s poorest and most isolated communities live and farm around the floodplains in Western Province. Recurrent droughts...

Sustainable forestry in Trinidad? Natural Forest Management in the South-East

In international policy, Trinidad has acquired a reputation for sustainable natural forest management. Definitions, criteria and indicators of sustainability are premised on ecological and social predictability; that forests and people will respond to rational management in rational, predictable and known ways.

The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy

Published by: Macmillan

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

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 Law Makes Us and We Make the Law: Comparative Perspective on Law and Social Change, paper for the International Workshop on Rule of Law and Development

Published by: IDS

This article sets out some ideas for a law in development research agenda that focuses on how law affects the life choices of poorer...

The State of Civil Society in Uganda: an Analysis of the Legal and Political-economic Aspects

Published by: Centre for Basic Research

Urban and Rural Differences in Primary School Attendance: An Empirical Study for Tanzania

What’s the policy? Meanings, motives and the political economy of an emergent forest policy in Guinea, West Africa

Published by: IDS