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Collective Efficiency and Increasing Returns

Recent research on industrial clusters in developing countries has unearthed some notable success stories of small local enterprises...

Complex Political Emergencies and the State

It is argued that an understanding of the role and nature of the state and of processes of state collapse are vital for understanding...

Constraints on Civil Society Efforts to Curb Corruption

Published by: IDS

Facing the New Competition: Business Associations in Developing Country Industrial Clusters

Published by: International Institute for Labour Studies

From Ascribed to Earned Trust in Exporting Clusters

Published by: Elsevier

This paper is concerned with the role of trust in export manufacturing. It asks how trust has developed in two industrial clusters...

Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges for Social Services: A Case Study in Uganda

Published by: IDS

This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of...

How do Bangladesh Elites Understand Poverty?

Published by: IDS

The poverty of most Bangladeshis is viewed as an important - but not urgent - issue by Bangladesh's elites. They do not feel...

‘Putnam in India’: Is Social Capital A Meaningful and Measurable Concept at Indian State Level?

Published by: IDS

In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the...

Implementing A Sustainable Livelihoods Framework for Policy-Directed Research: Reflections from Practice in Mali

Published by: IDS

This paper has two objectives. The first is to discuss the experience of carrying out research in a village in Mali as part of a...

Famine in the Sudan : causes, preparedness and response : a political, social and economic analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal

Published by: IDS

This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social...