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True to this Earth: Global Challenges and Transforming Faith

Published by: Oneworld Publications

Collective Efficiency: Growth Path for Small-Scale Industry

This study is concerned with the growth of small local industry in developing countries and explores one particular route for...

General Versus Vocational Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Rates of Return Evidence

Published by: IDS

The purpose o f this short article is to examine critically the current orthodoxy concerning social rates o f returns to general and...

Export-oriented Industrialisation Through Primary Processing?

Published by: IDS

Recent research suggests that East Asia's manufactured export success is not replicable in other developing countries, with lower...

Using and Abusing Rates of Return: A Critique of the World Bank’s 1995 Education Sector Review

Published by: IDS

Chinese Trade Unions in the Transition from Socialism: The emergence of Civil Society or the Road to Corporatism?

Published by: IDS

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform

Published by: IDS

Since 1950 China has transformed itself from the sick man of Asia' to a country with better than average health indices for its level...

Environmental Entitlements: An Outline Framework for Analysis, and a Mongolian Case Study

Published by: IDS

The uses and management o f renewable natural resources (RNRs), and their consequences fo r sustainability, are mediated in intended...

British Manufacturing Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corporate Responses During Structural Adjustment

Published by: IDS

A recently completed survey of British manufacturing investment in fourteen anglophone African countries indicates that there has...

How Will the EU’s Response to the GATT Round Affect Developing Countries?

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...