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How Can We Know What They Want? Understanding Local Perceptions of Poverty and Ill-Being in Asia

Published by: IDS

Aid donors are increasingly focused on poverty eradication and influenced by the principle of participation. They would like more insight into how poor people in poor countries understand the character, causes, correlates and cures of poverty and deprivation.

CAP Reforms: Will Developing Countries Benefit?

Published by: IDS

The UK Presidency of the EU must oversee progress on the Agenda 2000 proposals to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP). The proposed reforms are limited and will not include the substantial trade liberalisation called for by critics of the CAP. This must wait for the next round of WTO negotiations.

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Learning from Change

Published by: IDS

Development organisations need to know how effective their efforts have been. But who should make these judgements, and on what basis? Usually it is outside experts who take charge.

Stepping Forward: Children and Young People’s Participation in the Development Process

Published by: ITDG Publishing

Children and young people have much to offer the community they live in, but are often excluded I decisions and policies that affect their development, as their own opinions are ignored or overruled much of the time.

East Asia: What Happened to the Development Miracle?

Published by: IDS

Water Resource, Prevention of Violent Conflict and the Coherence of EU Policy in the Horn of Africa

Published by: Saferworld

Carrying the Can – Children and their Water Environments

Published by: Save the Children

Water Projects and Livelihoods – Poverty Impact in a Drought Prone Environment

Published by: Save the Children

Achieving Schooling for All: Budgetary Expenditures on Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Published by: IDS

This paper analyses public spending on education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over recent years, with a particular focus upon primary schooling. It identifies regional expenditure trends since 1980, and provides more detailed comparative data for selected countries over the 1990-95 period.

Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean

Published by: Cassell