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Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Gender', understood as the social construction of sex, is a key concept for feminists working at the interface of theory and policy. This article examines challenges to the concept which emerged from different groups at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995, an important arena for struggles over feminist public policies.

Winning coalitions and ethno-regional politics: the failure of the opposition in the 1990 and 1995 elections in Cote d’Ivoire

Judges and Journalists in the Transitional Democracies of Eastern Europe

Published by: Freedom House

Decentralisation: Towards a New System of Accountability in Local Government

Published by: Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

Gender and Equity in Health Sector Reform Programmes: A Review

Health sector reform lessons from China

As a result of China's transition to a socialist market economy, its rural health services have undergone many of the changes commonly...

Intervention Study on Health Financing System in China’s Poor Rural Area

Published by: Shanghai Medical University Press

Leading the left to the right: populist coalitions and economic reform

Democratic political parties with a history of commitment to statist economic policies face internal stresses when they come to power...

Collective Efficiency and Increasing Returns

Published by: IDS

Recent research on industrial clusters in developing countries has unearthed some notable success stories of small local enterprises growing fast and competing in export markets. This Paper focuses on some conceptual and theoretical points which help to explain them.

Evaluating Programme Aid

Published by: IDS

Programme aid (import support, budgetary support and debt relief) has become an important form of aid in recent years. Unlike conventional project aid, there is no agreed evaluation methodology for these funds.