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Lake Victoria’s Nile Perch Fish Cluster: Institutions, Politics and Joint Action

Published by: IDS

The collective efficiency model contends that joint action is essential for coping with new challenges. This paper discusses how enterprises in the Lake Victoria fish cluster operate, interact and address common challenges facing the industry. It suggests that the lack of effective institutions and the existing power relations explain the inability of the cluster to respond effectively to recent crises.

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 multi-country, comparative research programme on the theme of Sustainable Livelihoods.

Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: A Review

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Environmental policies in developing countries are increasingly criticised for being predicated on highly questionable assumptions.

Gender, HIV/AIDS Transmission and Impacts: A Review of Issues and Evidence

Illustrated with case studies on Bangladesh, Brazil and Uganda, this report highlights that there are gender differences in vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

NGO’s and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations

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Deindustrialisation in Southern Africa? A General Equilibrium Analysis

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A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on 37 sectors in 12 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is used to explore the welfare effects and the changes in employment structure of the agreed SADC Free Trade Area (FTA).

South Asia’s Export Structure in a Comparative Perspective

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World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia's export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia's exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures.

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

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In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.

The Role of Buyers in the Development of the Hotel Furniture Industry in Kenya

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This paper shows that Kenya's leading hotels source 95% of their furniture from local manufacturers. And it shows why and how the buyers, that is the hotels and their designers, helped these manufacturers to produce customised furniture to international quality requirements.

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Mali

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This report describes research on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods which was carried out in two villages in Mali, selected to represent the rainfed cereal and cotton producing regions.