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1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political
participation are the...
1 January 1999
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...
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social...
1 January 1999
1 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...
1 January 1999
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.
1 January 1999
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.
31 December 1998
Published by: Rowman and Littlefield
31 December 1998
Published by: Rowman and Littlefield
2 November 1998