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1 January 2004
Published by: Edward Elgar Publishing
This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The...
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor.
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
Social protection describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalised; with the overall objective of reducing the economic and social vulnerability of poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups.
1 January 2004
The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. As a result, the government has made health one of the key policy areas, and there is now a general recognition of the need to reform urban health services.
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
If development means good change, questions arise about what is good, and what sorts of change matter. Answers can be personally defined and redefined. The changing words, meanings and concepts of development discourse both reflect and influence what is done. The realities of the powerful tend to dominate.
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
In the last few years, there has been growing talk amongst development actors and agencies about a 'rights-based approach' to development. Yet what exactly this consists of remains unclear.
1 January 2004
This book presents a comprehensive account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and all decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties up to 2003, including the landmark Marrakesh Accords.
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
This paper goes beyond conceptual debates to explore country level practice around emergent rights-based approaches to development, and their relationship with more established practices of participatory development.
1 January 2004
Published by: IDS
Substantial theoretical and policy debate in the early 1990s led to an excessive focus on de-collectivisation and individualisation of...
1 January 2004
22 minutes CD with radio documentary written and made by 7 HIV+ Vietnamese mothers in Hanoi with Vietnamese National Radio.
