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Building Evaluability Assessments into Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Frameworks

Published by: IDS

This CDI Practice Paper by Richard Longhurst, Peter Wichmand and Burt Perrin discusses how evaluability assessments (EAs) can support the choice of evaluation approaches for determining impact, drawing on recent experiences of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Office.

Thailand: The Financial System Ten Years after the Crisis

When the bank of Thailand floated the baht on 2 July 1997 – and saw its value fall by more than half in eight months, the world...

Sanitation: What’s the Real Problem?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The vast number of people without sanitation raises the question why this is so. It cannot be a lack of adequate sanitation...

Logistics Performance and Trade: an Analysis of India’s Trade in Intermediates with Bangladesh and Thailand.

In this study, the objective is to empirically explore the role of logistics in enhancing production linkages through trade in intermediate products. Two case studies of trade in intermediate goods are undertaken: (i) India’s export of textile yarn to Bangladesh; and (ii) India’s import of air conditioning equipment from Thailand.

Gender in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations

Published by: GSDRC

This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available

Housing Density and Housing Preference in Bangkok’s Low-income Settlements

Published by: IIED

The traditional view of a low-income informal settlement is of overcrowded space that has both high population density within its land area and within each dwelling. This paper investigates whether this high density is observed in practice, and whether it is perpetuated in other forms of low-income housing, both community-developed (in settlements upgraded through participatory processes) and public housing.

Critical Human Security and HIV/AIDS in Thailand and China: National Responses and Provincial/Municipal Perceptions of the Challenges for Young People

This paper examines global and national responses to HIV/AIDS. The paper adopts a critical human security approach relating personal and...

China’s Threat and Opportunity: Challenges for Thai and Vietnamese Motorcycle Industries

Wellbeing, Development and Social Change in Thailand

Thailand has experienced economic and social transformation over a relatively short period of time and its experiences may offer salutary lessons for many other developing countries. However, the characteristics of Thailand's transformation to modernity encourage us to consider new frameworks for analysing and understanding development and social change.