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Economic Reform and Political Liberalization in Uganda

Published by: IDS

Uganda has been implementing simultaneous economic and political reforms since 1986. The interaction between these two sets of reforms is considered in this report which argues that political liberalization has not had a significant influence on the progress of economic reform.

Financing Health Services in Poor Rural Areas: Adapting to Economic and Institutional Reform in China

Published by: IDS

In-depth research in three poor counties in China provides a unique picture of the impact of economic and institutional reform on health services in areas where development lags behind the rest of the country.

Gender and Environmental History: Moving Beyond the Narratives of the Past in Contemporary Women-Environment Policy Debates

Published by: IDS

Claims about history figure prominently in contemporary ecofeminist and activist concerns with gender and the environment. This paper addresses such claims and considers the historical narratives and their uses in contemporary gender-environment debates.

Gender Relations and Environmental Change

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin moves beyond to emphasize the application of gender analysis to environmental relations: seeing women as differentiated and in relation to men; and paying attention to the links between gender relations with environmental activities, responsibilities and rights.

A Future Food Aid Regime: Implications of the Final Act of the GATT Uruguay Round

Published by: IDS

The conclusion of the GATT Uruguay Round and the setting up of the World Trade Organization provide a major opportunity for establishing a new food aid regime within a liberalising global economy.

Export-Oriented Industrialization Through Primary Processing?

Published by: IDS

This paper asks whether the chances of export-oriented industrialization in countries with low skill/land ratios seem better when the definition of manufactures is broadened to include processed primary products.

Europe’s Next Step: Organizational Innovation, Competition and Employment

The European economy faces a crisis of competitiveness. This book looks at the experiences of 13 leading European companies, demonstrating how organization has been the key to their productivity growth.

Farmers, Forests and Fuel: Towards a New Biomass Energy Strategy for Sri Lanka

This book reviews major initiatives to increase the supply and reduce the consumption of domestic energy, and explores the possibility...

Living With Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa

Published by: Intermediate Technology Publications

Recent years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management and policy implications of new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas, and the consequences of living with uncertainty for many aspects of pastoral management and administration.

Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation

This book brings together the results of 16 evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe), to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation.