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1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
South Africa faces a series of critical and daunting developmental challenges in the post-aparthied era. This IDS Bulletin explores the lessons of policy formation in a comparative context. Contributions cover industrial and agricultural strategy, health and education policy, regional government and policies on foreign direct investment.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
What is it like to be a woman in Bangladesh during times of socio-economic transformation? What forms of discrimination must women deal...
1 January 1994
What is the present state of gender relations in Zambia? Has economic recession and adjustment impacted differently on women and men? Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia has adopted structural adjustment and liberalisation measures in order to pull itself out of severe economic recession.
1 January 1994
This report reviews the Asian and Pacific experience of education of the last twenty years from a gender perspective, using statistical data. Regional overviews are given as well as more detailed analyses of trends since 1970 at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in literacy.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
This paper proposes a minimal model of the relationship between human resources and foreign trade in developing countries, aimed at...
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
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.
