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1 January 1994
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Discussion Paper reports on a workshop on 'Linking Relief and Development', held at IDS, Sussex in March 1994. Development and relief often operate at cross-purposes, with different objectives, cultures and modes of operation.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
Commissioned by the Strategic Planning Office of the Inter-American Development Bank, this report provides an assessment of the IDB's lending programme for the period 1979-92. It offers policy recommendations on how to improve future lending activities and addresses issues concerning the role of regional development banks in poverty reduction.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
This report provides a detailed exploration of the impact of economic and institutional change on rural health services in China. It shows how the health sector's development has been influenced firstly by the command economy and, since the 1970s, by the transition to a market economy. Detailed information is presented based on the findings of a multi-province survey of health utilization and expenditure carried out during 1988.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
The report describes a systematic household study of health care seeking behaviour and of the quality of commune health care in four rural communes in the north of Vietnam, during 1992-93.
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...