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Horticulture Commodity Chains: The Impact of the UK Market on the African Fresh Vegetable Industry

Published by: IDS

‘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...

Learning from Global Buyers

Published by: IDS

An increasing number of developing countries engage in contracting manufactutring for a decreasing number of global buyers. This constellation characterises many labour intensive export sectors. The positioning of developing country enterprises in such a buyer-driven chains occupies an increasing number of researchers concerned with identifying the winners and losers from globalisation.

Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty

Published by: IDS

This paper describes the measuring of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development for their citizens.

Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

Published by: Rowman and Littlefield

Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture

Published by: Rowman and Littlefield

Health and Wellbeing

Private good = public gain? Has ethical pressure squared the circle?

What factors mainly influence the conduct of companies in relation to human development today? Social and ethical movements and pressure groups are widely credited with putting social responsibility, environmental care and civil rights on the corporate agenda.

Micro-Credit: Impact, Targeting and Sustainability

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin on 'Microfinance' has grown out of a workshop on 'Recent Research on Microfinance: Implications for Policy', held at IDS in February, 1998 and organised by the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS).

Transition to What? Restarting Development After Communism

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin examines the European and Asian countries which are reforming formally Communist centrally-planned economies and one-party states. It goes beyond the frequent preoccupation with monetary policy and measures of economic openness to examine a multi-faceted phenomenon involving all areas of social, political and economic life.