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Working Paper

1 January 2000

Economic Reforms in India: Impact on the Poor and Poverty Reduction

Published by: IDS

This paper analyses the impact of the economic reforms initiated in India in 1991 on the poor and on poverty reduction. Using time series analysis of poverty indicators for all India and across states, it notes that while rural, urban and overall national poverty levels in India recorded a significant decline during the pre- reform period (1969-70 to 1990-91), during the post- reform period (1991-92 to 1993-94), these negative trends have weakened or even reversed in terms of one or more poverty indicators.

India

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Water for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Misconceptions

Published by: IDS

This paper critically reviews some of the global debates and narratives concerning water scarcity, water 'crises' and water resources management and shows what they are obscuring.

Lyla Mehta

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Participatory Environmental Policy Processes: Experiences from North and South

Published by: IDS

There is a growing recognition across the world that citizens should play a role in informing and shaping environmental policy. But how should this be done?

Ian Scoones

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Livelihood Diversification in Southern Ethiopia

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This paper presents research findings on livelihood diversification from southern Ethiopia. The history of livelihood diversification is outlined to shown how specific key events can either trigger or inhibit diversification activities.

Ethiopia

Publication

1 January 2000

Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries

Published by: IDS

The central motivating 'fact' in the poverty dynamics literature is that some of the poor are not poor all the time. Thus, poverty is dynamic. In most contexts, the inter 'temporal variation in economic dimensions of well-being, such as income or consumption capabilities, is greater than other dimensions.

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Synthesis of Experience With Participatory Approaches To Policy Design, Implementation and Monitoring

Published by: IDS

The purpose of this synthesis is to review the experience to date in applying participatory approaches to macro-level policy formulation, implementation and monitoring, with a view to supporting country-led facilitation of inclusive and high-quality participation in the PRS process.

Rosemary McGee

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Spreading the Gains from Globalisation: What Can Be Learned From Value Chain Analysis

Published by: IDS

Globalisation has been associated with increasing inequality within and between countries, and with a large share of the world's population living in poverty.

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Democracy, Law and Comparative Politics

Published by: IDS

This paper is a revision of democratic theory from the perspective of its inadequacies for including into its scope many of the recently democratized countries, as well as some older democracies located outside of the Northwestern quadrant of the world.

Law, Democracy and Development

Working Paper

1 January 2000

Equity in Health in Unequal Societies: Towards Health Equity During Rapid Social Change

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This paper explores the implications for health policy of the segmentation of society into social groups with very different levels of income and wealth. It focuses particularly on societies undergoing rapid social change, such as southern Africa and China.

Gerald Bloom

Report

1 January 2000

Health Care Seeking by the Poor in Transitional Economies: The Case of Vietnam

Published by: IDS

This Report is based on the IDS health team research into the Vietnam health system.

Henry Lucas

Viet Nam

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Economic Reforms in India: Impact on the Poor and Poverty Reduction

Water for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Misconceptions

Participatory Environmental Policy Processes: Experiences from North and South

Livelihood Diversification in Southern Ethiopia

Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries

Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Synthesis of Experience With Participatory Approaches To Policy Design, Implementation and Monitoring

Spreading the Gains from Globalisation: What Can Be Learned From Value Chain Analysis

Democracy, Law and Comparative Politics

Equity in Health in Unequal Societies: Towards Health Equity During Rapid Social Change

Health Care Seeking by the Poor in Transitional Economies: The Case of Vietnam