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Regional Integration in Southern Africa in a General Equilibrium Framework: Model, Data and First Results

Published by: IDS

Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White

Published by: IDS

The articles in this Bulletin arise from a conference held to honour the memory of IDS Fellow, Gordon White. Spanning a wide range of subjects, this IDS Bulletin can be divided into four substantive areas: politics in the state, civil society, welfare and globalisation.

On Apparent Problems with the Use of the Armington Aggregator in Computable General Equlibrium Models

This letter points out that the problems Senhadji (Applied Economics Letters, 4, 23-5, 1997) attributes to the use of the Armington...

Dynamic Applied General Equlibrium Trade Policy Analysis in the Presence of Foreign Asset Cross-Ownership

This paper addresses the question to which extent the prevailing modelling practice of ignoring foreign asset cross-ownership patterns...

Globalisation and the Governance of the Environment

Published by: IDS

It is sometimes argued that the term 'globalisation' is misleading because it describes a trend which is largely confined to the relations between a small number of highly industrialised states and firms operating within East Asia, North America and Europe.

Nationalising The Anti-Poverty Agenda?

Published by: IDS

The New Poverty Agenda, along with many other neo-liberal orthodoxies of the 1980s and early 1990s is withering away as rapid political and ideological shifts take place at the global level and within the domain of international development policy. Whilst this IDS Bulletin celebrates that fact, it also urges caution.

Local Civil Society, Elections and Governance (Poland)

NGOs and the Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of Saptagram

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

NGOs are increasingly concerned to scale up their impact, whilst donors look to them to help strengthen civil society. It is therefore important to assess the role of NGOs in promoting membership organisations.

NGOs and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of the Quilon Fishermen Welfare Society

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Recent shifts in NGO and donor priorities make it important to understand how NGOs promote membership organisations. As a means of exploring this issue, this paper uses the example of the largely successful NGO attempts to help South Indian fishermen organise in response to technical change.

Making Less Last Longer: Informal Safety Nets in Malawi

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Poor households in sub-Saharan Africa are of necessity adjusting to a bewildering array of radical changes in the policy environment within which they struggle to construct viable livelihoods.