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Gender and Environmental History: From Representations of Women and Nature to Gender Analysis of Ecology and Politics

Published by: IDS

Writing on imperial and colonial history has been heavily criticised, initially for its complete ignorance of women as historical subjects and, more recently, for its gender-blind methodology and hence failure to envisage history as a gendered experience.

Keeping it Real

Published by: Educational Video Center (EVC)

A 20 minutes film made by at-risk teenagers from New York discussing teen pregnancy and the right to choose

Small Shoemakers and Fordist Giants: Tale of a Supercluster

This paper investigates a success story from a country in crisis: the shoe industry of the Sinos Valley in Brazil. The main question is...

Strengthening Civil Society in Africa: the Role of Foreign Political Aid

Published by: IDS

Strengthening civil society through the provision of financial resources and technical assistance is viewed by aid donors as an effective means of fostering political pluralism and consolidating fragile democracies in developing countries.

Environmental Entitlements: An Outline Framework for Analysis, and a Mongolian Case Study

Published by: IDS

This paper highlights some pitfalls in the existing literature on poverty-environment linkages in developing countries and offers an alternative analytical approach based on the notion of 'environmental entitlements'.

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform

Published by: IDS

This paper considers how the systems of finance and management of rural health services have changed due to economic reforms.

Chinese Trade Unions in the Transition from Socialism: The Emergence of Civil Society or the Road to Corporatism?

Published by: IDS

How can China's trade unions find a new role in an economy in which market relations are increasingly dominant, and to what extent will they be able to become part of a new 'civil society'? This paper addresses these issues, made urgent by the rapid pace of economic reform.

Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage and Testing Food Market Integration

Published by: IDS

Conventional tests for food market integration ask whether prices in different locations move together. This paper develops an alternative and more reliable test methodology: the parity bounds model.

Health Expenditure and Finance in Three Poor Counties of China

Published by: IDS

This paper contains reports on health expenditure and finance in the following poor counties in China: Donglan, in Guanxi; Shibing, in Guizhou; and Xunyi in Shaanxi.

Using and Abusing Rates of Return: A Critique of the World Bank’s 1995 Education Sector Review

Published by: IDS

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Education Sector Review draws on rates of return to education research (RORE) to support policy recommendations within the education sector.