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Carrying the Can – Children and their Water Environments

Published by: Save the Children

Water Projects and Livelihoods – Poverty Impact in a Drought Prone Environment

Published by: Save the Children

Achieving Schooling for All: Budgetary Expenditures on Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Published by: IDS

This paper analyses public spending on education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over recent years, with a particular focus upon primary schooling. It identifies regional expenditure trends since 1980, and provides more detailed comparative data for selected countries over the 1990-95 period.

Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean

Published by: Cassell

Trust and Inter-firm Relations in Developing and Transition Economies

The role of trust in facilitating economic growth has been highlighted in previous contributions to this journal. In order to take this...

Prospects for Village Self-Governance In China

State and Unions in the Transformation of the Brazilian Countryside, 1964-1979

In the early 1960s, the dramatic mobilization of rural wage laborers and small farmers placed the agrarian question at the top of the...

The Democratic Developmental State: Politics and Institutional Design

Published by: Oxford University Press

The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to the dominant consensus that held sway for the previous two decades, which stated that developmental progress in poor societies was best assured by strong states, ruled by authoritarian regimes.

The effects of monetary policy on the balance of payments in Fiji

Published by: National Centre for Development Studies

Growth Effects of Anticipated Trade Liberalization and the Baldwin Multiplier

According to Baldwin (1992)[Baldwin, R.E., 1992. Measurable dynamic gains from trade. Journal of Political Economy 100, 162–174] trade...