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1 January 1988
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.
1 January 1988
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.
13 June 1987
1 January 1987
Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world....
1 January 1987
This study looks at the direct and indirect effects of micro-electronics, and attempts to show how patterns of employment are linked to...
1 January 1987
Brazil, one of the Third World's most industrialized countries, is used as the focus for this in-depth case study which looks at...
1 January 1987
After three decades of progress in improving child welfare, there was a marked reversal in many parts of the world in the 1980s,...
16 April 1986
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.
1 January 1986
Published by: School for Advanced Urban Studies
1 January 1986