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Micro-Electronics and Employment Revisited: A Review

This study looks at the direct and indirect effects of micro-electronics, and attempts to show how patterns of employment are linked to...

Gender and Work in the Third World: Sexual Divisions in Brazilian Industry

Brazil, one of the Third World's most industrialized countries, is used as the focus for this in-depth case study which looks at...

Adjustment with a Human Face Volume 1 – Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

After three decades of progress in improving child welfare, there was a marked reversal in many parts of the world in the 1980s,...

Introduction: Aid-effectiveness, Prisoners’ Dilemmas, and Country Allocation

Published by: IDS

In theory – and in project and country experience – aid has proved its potential to stimulate growth, and sometimes to reduce poverty. But the record has been worsening, for four reasons.

Decentralisation: A Progress Report

Published by: School for Advanced Urban Studies

Decentralisation and Democracy

The World Economy Since the War: The Politics of Uneven Development

This book, written by a former IDS Fellow, analyses the development and transformation of international organizations through the...

Developmental States in East Asia: Editorial Introduction

Published by: IDS

The papers in this IDS Bulletin focus on different aspects of the historical experience of state economic involvement in three East Asian NICs, one socialist (China) and two capitalist (Taiwan and South Korea).

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s: Open Economies in a Closing World

This book explores the issues of industrial growth in the 1980s.

Law and Order Statistics in the Third World

Published by: IDS

This paper is about the unreliability of crime statistics in developing countries. There are many operational,...