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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,...

Rural Development: Putting the Last First

Published by: John Wiley and Sons

The central theme of this book is that rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders, those who are not themselves rural and poor.

China’s New Development Strategy

In this book internationally recognized experts on China describe and evaluate recent changes, relating them to earlier policies and experience, the problems of developing countries generally and the process of change in other socialist countries.

Rural Technology, Rural Institutions and the Rural Poorest

Proceedings of a Workshop organized by the Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Comilla, Bangladesh, and IDS, Sussex, in February 1981.

Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty

The process which has led to this book was sparked off by the discovery in a seminar at the Institute of Development Studies at the...

Public sector salaries policy in Africa and the Near East: the UK connection

Published by: IDS