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Public Expenditure Policy and Poverty Reduction: Has the World Bank Got it Right

Published by: IDS

Hazards and Opportunities: Farming Livelihoods in Dryland Africa: Lessons From Zimbabwe

Climatic variability, poor soils and increasing resource pressures are undermining people's ability to make a living in the drylands of Africa.

Banking Reform in Ethiopia

Published by: IDS

The monopoly government-owned banks in Ethiopia remained relatively sound throughout the period of socialist government.

The Limited Impact of Financial Sector Reforms in Zimbabwe

Published by: IDS

The post-independence Zimbabwe government did not interfere significantly with the operations of the banking system, despite the existence of a large government-owned commercial bank, and a commitment to socialist ideology and to reducing inequality.

The Conceptualization of ‘Trust’ in Economic Thought

Published by: IDS

This paper focuses on the emergence of trust in economic thought and clarifies its conceptualisation as a term used to identify a purely calculative theory of behaviour in which agents form subjective probabilities regarding the future action of others.

The Impact of Financial Sector Policies on Banking in Ghana

Published by: IDS

This paper examines why the banking system in Ghana was in need of reform in the 1980s and evaluates the impact of the financial sector reforms.

Institutions, Relations and Outcomes: Framework and Tools for Gender-Aware Planning

Published by: IDS

This paper aims to develop an analytical framework and a set of tools which can help planners ensure that gender is systematically integrated into all aspects of their work.

Compensating for Institutional Exclusion? Lessons from Indian Government and Non-Government Credit Interventions for the Poor

Published by: IDS

This paper conceptualises poverty as the product of multiple, and frequently interlocking, forms of institutional exclusion and focuses on the exclusion of the poor from mainstream financial institutions in India in order to analyse the rules, norms and procedures by which this occurs.

Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

Published by: Routledge

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use.

Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa

Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard to local practice.