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Neighbourhood Working: A New Approach to Housing Provision

Published by: University of Bristol

Decentralisation

Published by: Local Government Training Board

Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia

The many billions of dollars invested in canal irrigation in recent decades have had disappointing results. Rarely have projected benefits in well-being or production been achieved. In consequence, in the mid-1980s, further vast sums are being spent throughout the Third World on programmes for rehabilitation, canal lining, on farm development, and farmers' organisation.

Agricultural Pricing Policy in Africa: Four Country Case Studies

This book contains a detailed analysis of agricultural marketing policy and its consequences in Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Case studies explore the various effects of these policies on farmers' livelihoods.

Insecticide use and increased mortality in rural Central Luzon, Philippines

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world....

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.