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Second Nature

West Africa's transition zone is one of the world's most ecologically fragile areas and is widely assumed to be experiencing a deforestation crisis. For a century experts have held villagers responsible.

The Power of Participation: PRA and Policy

Published by: IDS

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) has much to offer the policy-making process. It provides a way to give poor people a voice, enabling them to express and analyse their problems and priorities. Used well, it can generate important and often surprising insights which can contribute to policies which are better fitted to serving the needs of the poor

An Agenda for the World Food Summit

Published by: IDS

The 1996 World Food Summit is an opportunity for heads of state to make binding commitments to end world hunger. It is an achievable goal, but hard choices will have to be made.

Water Policy: Allocation and Management in Practice

Published by: E. and F.N. Spon

Political Decentralisation and River Basin Management

Published by: E. and F.N. Spon

There’s Still Madness in the Method: Testing for Food Market Integration Revisited

Published by: IDS

This paper evaluates the statistical performance of four commonly used econometric tests for market integration and shows that all four are statistically flawed.

Government Policies and the Development of Banking in Kenya

Published by: IDS

Financial Repression and Financial Reform in Uganda

Published by: IDS

The banking system in Uganda is among the weakest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its liabilities comprise less than 10 per cent of GDP, it is highly oligopolistic and inefficient in performing many basic banking functions, and the largest bank and several smaller banks are insolvent.

The Impact of Public Policy on the Banking System in Nigeria

Published by: IDS

The banking system in Nigeria has undergone radical changes during the 35 years since independence. Banking developed from an industry which in 1960 was dominated by a small number of foreign owned banks into one in which public sector ownership predominated in the 1970s and 1980s and in which Nigerian private investors have played an increasingly important role since the mid 1980s.

Financial Policies and the Banking System in Zambia

Published by: IDS

For over 20 years until the early 1990s Zambia had entailed extensive government ownership and administrative controls over markets, including financial and banking markets. Interventionist policies, combined with a steep fall in the external terms of trade, led to economic decline.