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Responding to Global Competitive Pressure: Local Co-operation and Upgrading in the Sinos Valley, Brazil

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This paper investigates whether enterprises in the export-oriented Sinos Valley (South of Brazil) have stepped up co-operation in...

Food-for-Work in Ethiopia: Challenging the Scope of Project Evaluations

Published by: IDS

Evaluations of the numerous Food-for-Work (FFW) projects in operation across Ethiopia are designed to assess their effectiveness, and are often defined by the objectives stated in the terms of reference.

East Asia: What Happened to the Development Miracle?

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This IDS Bulletin presents the key background papers from a major conference on the East Asian Crisis held at IDS in July 1998. A group of experts from different backgrounds, including international finance, macroeconomic and social policy, and development strategy, came together to discuss the causes of the crisis.

Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance

The book is systematically comparative, and based upon extensive popular surveys and local fieldwork. It makes an important contribution to current debates in the development literature on whether 'good governance' and decentralisation can provide more responsive and effective services for the mass of the population - the poor and disadvantaged who live in the rural areas.

Economic Reform, Poverty and Equity in Access to Health Care: Case Studies in Viet Nam

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

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

Who Gets Primary Schooling and Why? Evidence of Gender Inequalities Within Families in Guinea

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This paper examines family-level determinants of schooling for boys and girls in Guinea using bivariate and multivariate analyses on data collected from school surveys.

Public Participation in Health: Making People Matter

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Participation of communities is widely argued to be an important factor in improving health outcomes and the performance of health systems.

Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

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The 1990s have seen increased interest on the part of Western governments in funding civil society in Africa in an attempt to promote the continent's democratisation process. This discussion paper examines how a range of foreign donors has developed civil society initiatives in Ghana, Uganda and South Africa.

Women and Agribusiness: Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Sector

Fresh fruit exported from Chile, and many other developing countries, has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months. Employment in this branch of agribusiness is mainly seasonal and employs large numbers of women workers.