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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
2 November 1998
What factors mainly influence the conduct of companies in relation to human development today? Social and ethical movements and pressure groups are widely credited with putting social responsibility, environmental care and civil rights on the corporate agenda.
2 October 1998
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin on 'Microfinance' has grown out of a workshop on 'Recent Research on Microfinance: Implications for Policy', held at IDS in February, 1998 and organised by the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS).
1 July 1998
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin examines the European and Asian countries which are reforming formally Communist centrally-planned economies and one-party states. It goes beyond the frequent preoccupation with monetary policy and measures of economic openness to examine a multi-faceted phenomenon involving all areas of social, political and economic life.
1 March 1998
The three-year research programme, established in April 1998 and funded by the Ford Foundation, examined the interplay between civil society and governments in 22 different countries, spanning six international regions.