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Fish and Feminists

Published by: IDS

Despite apparent acceptance of gender analysis within development organisations, this is still only rarely translated into gender-sensitive practice.

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin considers problems in institutionalising gender-sensitive development policy by exploring new gendered perspectives on the structure and functioning of development organisations, as well as strategies to improve their accountability to women.

Towards Democratic Governance

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin critically examine the implementation of various policies and programmes fostered by the good government agenda.

Gender equality, bilateral programme assistance and structural adjustment: policy and procedures

Published by: Elsevier

Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage and Testing for Food Market Integration

Published by: IDS

Conventional tests for food market integration ask often misleadingly, whether prices in different locations move together.

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'.