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1 January 2007
Published by: EcoMod Press
Brazil's trade with China has expanded at a tremendous pace over the past few years. Between 1999 and 2004, its exports to China have...
1 January 2007
Published by: EcoMod Press
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
The implications of decentralisation for minority and marginalised groups are complex and contested. It has long been an article of faith for 'decentralisation and participation' advocates that bringing decision making closer to the grassroots is a prerequisite for overcoming the unresponsiveness of monolithic, top-down state service delivery systems or unaccountable, exclusionary privatised ones (Tendler 1997).
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
Brazil’s participatory policy councils may have gained less international attention
than Participatory Budgeting. Yet the thousands...
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...
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses the experience of the World Social Forum in its five initial
editions, from 2001 to 2005, all of them but one held...
1 January 2006
1 January 2006
Published by: IDS
This paper examines the impact and significance of independent budget analysis and advocacy initiatives that are designed to improve budget transparency and the poverty focus of government expenditure priorities. It draws on case study research of six budget groups in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda, which include non-governmental organisations, research institutions and social movements.
1 January 2006
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper contrasts two processes of governance reform that occurred in Brazil in the 1990s, one in relation to fiscal responsibility, the other in relation to tax. It illustrates that the degree of institutional change possible depends on whether changes in the positions of actors and their relative powers have occurred to the extent that a new social pact can be built.
1 January 2006
Published by: IDS
Not for the first time, real events have caught the research community by surprise. From the late twentieth century Asian economies began to play an increasingly important role as global producers, beginning in Japan after the 1960s, and spreading to some other East Asian economies during the last quarter of the century.
