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Climatic warming and increased malaria incidence in Rwanda

Linking Relief and Development

Published by: IDS

The basic idea of linking relief and development is simple and sensible. But what is involved in practice and what are the barriers preventing it? This IDS Bulletin presents a collection of articles on the issues involved, a number of case studies, and perspectives from several leading development and relief agencies.

The Structural Adjustment of Structural Adjustment: SSA 1980-1993

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Structural adjustment can be dated to the World Bank's 1981 Accelerated Development (Berg) Report, albeit precursor World Bank programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Togo, Malagasy Republic) date to the late 1970s.

Under-Enrolment and Low Quality in African Primary Schooling: Towards a Gender-Sensitive Solution

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This paper investigates the causes of under-enrolment and low school quality in Africa, distinguishing between those related to the provision of schooling by the State, and those related to the demand for the service by households.

NGOs and Development: The Primacy of the Personal

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Experience with PRA suggests that a reversal of the normally dominant behaviour and attitudes of outsiders is crucial for participatory development. To what extent would such changes resolve the problems of performance and accountability which currently concern so many NGOs?

Knowledge is Power? The Use and Abuse of Information in Development

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This IDS Bulletin is concerned with the use and abuse of information in development planning and policy-making. The conventional wisdom that more and better information automatically leads to improved policy an practice is challenged.

Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Power

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The idea that ‘knowledge itself is power’ is not new; but at the global level, this dictum is now truer than ever, as a result of...

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

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Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition-based estimate of minimum income or expenditure.

Exporting Manufactures: Trade Policy or Human Resources?

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A Framework for Understanding Area-based Decentralisation

Proposes an ideal-type model of decentralisation which consists of five interlocking and mutually reinforcing elements: localisation, flexibility, devolved management, organisational culture change, and democratisation.