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1 January 1998
International concern over the extent and rate of tropical deforestation has intensified, whether for interests of biodiversity, climate change, forest peoples or respect for nature. West Africa is assumed to have experienced the most dramatic deforestation of all, supporting cataclysmic climate predictions.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
The concept of 'sustainable livelihoods' is increasingly important in the development debate. This paper outlines a framework for analysing sustainable livelihoods, defined here in relation to five key indicators.
1 January 1998
Published by: Routledge
The contributions of this volume offer a fresh approach to analysing the problem of corruption in developing countries and the best means to tackle the phenomenon. They draw on a wide variety of theoretical traditions and are interdisciplinary in their approach, reflecting the fact that corruption cannot be understood through the lens of economic or political analysis alone.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper presents a literature review of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world, used in differing contexts and involving all kinds of stakeholders.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
Mexico, as many other developing countries in Latin America and elsewhere, has been moving in the 1980s towards a liberalised trade regime after a long period of import-substitution. This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalisation on the cooperative behaviour of firms located in the footwear cluster of Guadalajara.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper studies the impact of globalisation on wage inequality in eight now-developed countries during the century prior to 1970, using the same dependent variable and methodology as research on the impact of globalisation since 1970.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper presents and discusses recently undertaken research that seeks to assess the extent to which higher education in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States has been internationalised in two key areas.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
Between 1980 and 1991 the proportion of Zambian children dying before reaching five years of age rose from 15 to 19 percent. This paper explores why this happened. There are no data on trends in morbidity.
1 January 1998
This book provides a review of the evolution of the post-independence banking system in Africa. There is a strong focus on the problems...
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
Conventional poverty profiles and poverty status regressions are often criticised by policy makers for telling them a lot about who the poor are, but very little about what to do to combat poverty. Essentially this is because the correlates of poverty status are distinct from the dynamic processes that lead households to fall into or escape from poverty.
