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1 January 2000
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.
1 January 2000
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?
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
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.
1 January 2000
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.
1 January 2000
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.
1 January 2000
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.
1 January 2000
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.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
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.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is based on the IDS health team research into the Vietnam health system.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
The creation and selling of ideas of global environmental crisis has been a core characteristic of the post-Rio decade. Global science and global policymaking processes are central to these crises.
