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Dynamic Applied General Equlibrium Trade Policy Analysis in the Presence of Foreign Asset Cross-Ownership

This paper addresses the question to which extent the prevailing modelling practice of ignoring foreign asset cross-ownership patterns...

Globalisation and the Governance of the Environment

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.

Nationalising The Anti-Poverty Agenda?

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.

Local Civil Society, Elections and Governance (Poland)

NGOs and the Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of Saptagram

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.

NGOs and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of the Quilon Fishermen Welfare Society

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.

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 within which they struggle to construct viable livelihoods.

Famine in the Sudan: Causes, Preparedness and Response. A Political, Social and Economic Analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal Famine

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.

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

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...