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5 December 1994
Published by: IDS
A recently completed survey of British manufacturing investment in fourteen anglophone African countries indicates that there has...
1 December 1994
Published by: IDS
The paper makes an initial analysis of the trade policy changes that the EU will implement to give effect to its GATT Round...
26 October 1994
3 October 1994
Published by: IDS
The basic idea of linking relief and development is simple and sensible. But what is involved in practice and what are the barriers preventing it? This IDS Bulletin presents a collection of articles on the issues involved, a number of case studies, and perspectives from several leading development and relief agencies.
1 July 1994
Published by: IDS
Structural adjustment can be dated to the World Bank's 1981 Accelerated Development (Berg) Report, albeit precursor World Bank programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Togo, Malagasy Republic) date to the late 1970s.
1 July 1994
Published by: IDS
This paper investigates the causes of under-enrolment and low school quality in Africa, distinguishing between those related to the provision of schooling by the State, and those related to the demand for the service by households.
1 June 1994
Published by: IDS
Experience with PRA suggests that a reversal of the normally dominant behaviour and attitudes of outsiders is crucial for participatory development. To what extent would such changes resolve the problems of performance and accountability which currently concern so many NGOs?
1 May 1994
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin is concerned with the use and abuse of information in development planning and policy-making. The conventional wisdom that more and better information automatically leads to improved policy an practice is challenged.
26 April 1994
Published by: IDS
The idea that ‘knowledge itself is power’ is not new; but at the global level, this dictum is now truer than ever, as a result of...
11 April 1994
Published by: IDS
Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition-based estimate of minimum income or expenditure.
