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1 July 1999
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.
5 May 1999
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.
26 April 1999
25 January 1999
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.
25 January 1999
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.
25 January 1999
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.
25 January 1999
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems.
IDS was commissioned in by the Department of International Development Malawi, to provide advice on the design phase of the Malawi National Safety Nets Programme.
10 January 1999
Published by: IDS
Production of fresh vegetables for export has grown rapidly in a number of countries in sub-Saharan African over the past decade. The...
While the debate on industrial clusters and local innovation systems was mainly concerned with local linkages, this work examined global linkages and how they affected local relationships.