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1 March 2009
Published by: IDS
Security, like development, is seen as something the North delivers through its policy interventions and aid programmes, rather than as the product of changes in the developing South, reflecting the priorities and interests of those most at risk.
30 January 2009
Published by: IDS
Ghana's cocoa marketing system has performed impressively over the past decade. Cocoa production has reached record high levels. Farmers receive a relatively large share of export earnings.
30 January 2009
Published by: IDS
Ghana's cocoa marketing system has performed impressively over the past decade. Cocoa production has reached record high levels. Farmers receive a relatively large share of export earnings.
1 January 2009
Published by: Contestations
Orientalist discourses may be ripe, but in many contexts, feminists are also practicing self-censorship where critiques of the religious in the political are concerned, out of fear of being hounded upon as being traitors.
This research seeks to assess the impact of China’s growing economic relationships in Latin America and Africa in the context of a major structural shift in the global political economy; ‘South-South dialogue’; and sustainable development strategies addressing poverty alleviation and reduced inequality.
The Triple-S Initiative aims to catalyse systemic change in rural water policies and practices, to move from an infrastructure-based approach towards service delivery approaches. IDS is providing ongoing external learning and methodology support to the initiative.
13 August 2008
Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Egyptian women have not retreated from activism altogether. Women workers were the first to strike and female students have been just as active and defiant as their male counterparts. A significant proportion of the property tax workers participating in the sit-ins were women; even the Bedouin women of Sinai have risen to demand freedom for their family members incarcerated after terrorist bombings in 2004. But women have been less active on behalf of explicitly feminist causes.
30 June 2008
Published by: Agence Française de Développement
1 February 2008
Published by: University of Bath
This paper argues for the adoption of a practical concept of wellbeing and the integration of wellbeing audits into all levels of development policy processes.
1 January 2008
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Displacement arising through the building of infrastructure projects such as mines, large dams and roads gives rise to radical and rapid...