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1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
The report describes a systematic household study of health care seeking behaviour and of the quality of commune health care in four rural communes in the north of Vietnam, during 1992-93.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
South Africa faces a series of critical and daunting developmental challenges in the post-aparthied era. This IDS Bulletin explores the lessons of policy formation in a comparative context. Contributions cover industrial and agricultural strategy, health and education policy, regional government and policies on foreign direct investment.
1 January 1994
Published by: IDS
What is it like to be a woman in Bangladesh during times of socio-economic transformation? What forms of discrimination must women deal...
1 January 1994
What is the present state of gender relations in Zambia? Has economic recession and adjustment impacted differently on women and men? Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia has adopted structural adjustment and liberalisation measures in order to pull itself out of severe economic recession.
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.
