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The Conceptualization of ‘Trust’ in Economic Thought

Published by: IDS

This paper focuses on the emergence of trust in economic thought and clarifies its conceptualisation as a term used to identify a purely calculative theory of behaviour in which agents form subjective probabilities regarding the future action of others.

The Impact of Financial Sector Policies on Banking in Ghana

Published by: IDS

This paper examines why the banking system in Ghana was in need of reform in the 1980s and evaluates the impact of the financial sector reforms.

Institutions, Relations and Outcomes: Framework and Tools for Gender-Aware Planning

Published by: IDS

This paper aims to develop an analytical framework and a set of tools which can help planners ensure that gender is systematically integrated into all aspects of their work.

Compensating for Institutional Exclusion? Lessons from Indian Government and Non-Government Credit Interventions for the Poor

Published by: IDS

This paper conceptualises poverty as the product of multiple, and frequently interlocking, forms of institutional exclusion and focuses on the exclusion of the poor from mainstream financial institutions in India in order to analyse the rules, norms and procedures by which this occurs.

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

Published by: Routledge

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use.

Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa

Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard to local practice.

Commons and Collectives: The Lack of Social Capital in Central Asia’s Land Reforms

Published by: IDS

Current debate about land and agrarian reform in the post-Soviet Central Asian republics tends to be couched in terms of stark choices between state, collective and private ownership. There is little discussion of the full range of potential tenure arrangements in the 'middle ground' between private and state ownership.

Banking Policy in Botswana: Orthodox but Untypical

Published by: IDS

Financial sector policy in Botswana was unusual. In most other African countries, newly independent governments intervened extensively in the ownership, management and credit allocation of domestic banks.

Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s

Published by: IDS

Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is accelerating, according to this study, and has already progressed much further than previous reports have indicated. Up to now, the analysis of the privatisation in sub-Saharan Africa has been based on very incomplete and out of date data.

Organisational Issues in New Forms of Multi-Sectoral Planning

Published by: IDS

Despite current ideological and philosophical objections to planning, it survives in new forms, generating Policy Framework Papers, Poverty Assessments and Food Security Strategies.