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1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin focuses on the role of civil society actors in the design of sectoral reforms and the possibilities of social accountability resulting from this role.
1 January 2008
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Brazil's emergence from two decades of military dictatorship in the mid-1980s gave rise to a flowering of democratic innovation.
1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
The extraordinary attention raised by civil society in the academic world and in
national and international circuits of public...
1 November 2007
Published by: IDS
Brazil's participatory policy councils may have gained less international attention than Participatory Budgeting.
1 November 2007
A contribution to an analysis of the impact of prospective changes in the multilateral and regional trade environment on employment and income in Brazil.
1 June 2007
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
There are plenty of accounts of development failure, but what about success? In what circumstances do governments and their partners manage to produce policies that endure and meet their aims?
30 May 2007
Published by: IDS
A well-established body of democratic theory suggests that associations are the schools of democracy and, because they produce civic and active citizens, are vital to the quality of democracy. In this paper we find that this may not be the case in newer democracies with authoritarian legacies. Survey research in the large urban centers of São Paulo and Mexico City reveals that citizens who participate in associations are more likely to actively pursue a range of rights and entitlements, but this participation does not improve the quality of their relations with government.
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
Does the devolution of responsibility for service provision to elected local authorities improve the delivery of services to the poor? This is the major challenge of democratic decentralisation and a key benchmark for assessment. Many governments devolve power and resources to local bodies which assume responsibility for health, education and other essential services
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
This paper is set to examine the developmental impact of international Codes and Standards (C&S) as they are applied to the banking system in Brazil. It is driven by the questions: to what extent has compliance with international C&S affected, or may affect in the future, credit to the SMEs and the poor?