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1 January 1994
This report reviews the Asian and Pacific experience of education of the last twenty years from a gender perspective, using statistical data. Regional overviews are given as well as more detailed analyses of trends since 1970 at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in literacy.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
This paper proposes a minimal model of the relationship between human resources and foreign trade in developing countries, aimed at...
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
1 January 1994
This book is the result of a 1984 World Bank/IMF commissioned study on the effectiveness of aid. It finds that most aid succeeds in terms of its own objectives and obtains a reasonable rate of return. It compares unsuccessful aid projects with other forms of investment and proposes measures for improving aid-effectiveness.
1 January 1994
This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.
1 January 1994
This book describes the ideological and political process that is agricultural development. It points towards more practical strategies for developing effective and equitable partnerships between indigenous knowledge systems through adaptive, people-centred, agricultural research and extension, moving from theory to policy and practice.
1 January 1994
Published by: Verso
This collection forms a critique of conventional development concepts from a gender perspective. It traces the emergence of 'women' as an analytical category in development thought, and the gradual shift to a focus on gender and gender relations.
1 January 1994
1 January 1994
This book examines the major causes of Africa's economic and social crisis, which although recognized and widely discussed from the...