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1 January 1994
This book is the result of a 1984 World Bank/IMF commissioned study on the effectiveness of aid. It finds that most aid succeeds in terms of its own objectives and obtains a reasonable rate of return. It compares unsuccessful aid projects with other forms of investment and proposes measures for improving aid-effectiveness.
1 January 1994
This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.
1 January 1994
This book describes the ideological and political process that is agricultural development. It points towards more practical strategies for developing effective and equitable partnerships between indigenous knowledge systems through adaptive, people-centred, agricultural research and extension, moving from theory to policy and practice.
1 January 1994
Published by: Verso
This collection forms a critique of conventional development concepts from a gender perspective. It traces the emergence of 'women' as an analytical category in development thought, and the gradual shift to a focus on gender and gender relations.
1 January 1994
1 January 1994
This book examines the major causes of Africa's economic and social crisis, which although recognized and widely discussed from the...
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
The new Uruguay Round agreement, to be signed in Marrakech in April, establishes the framework for trade into the next century.
1 January 1994
Published by: University of Bristol
1 January 1994
Published by: Macmillan
This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing...
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
In his most recent review of rates of return to education (RORE), George Psacharopoulos reaffirms that the conventional pattern of continent-wide aggregate social and private ROREs continues to prevail among both developed and developing countries.