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28 January 2016
One of the core aims of Mexico’s health sector reform in the two last administrations has been the extension of essential health...
28 January 2016
Programmes against poverty implemented in Mexico over the last 30 years have become experimental laboratories for citizen participation...
27 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The economic and social transformations that have taken place in Mexico during the last three decades have influenced the way labour...
4 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article focuses on local perceptions of wellbeing, their underlying social and power relations and the resulting cultural...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
In this Discussion Group we aim to engage in an informal non-academic dialogue with researchers working in conflict, and with the IDS academic community in general, to understand better some of the particularities and consequences of the violence and conflict in Mexico.
19 January 2015
Published by: IDS
Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives.
1 January 2015
Published by: ICTD and IDS
Development scholars are taking renewed interest in the taxation-accountability theory, which broadly claims that if governments are dependent on taxation they will become less corrupt and more accountable to citizens. The need to raise tax revenue is said to spark incentives that lead to mutually beneficial bargaining between the government and its citizens, through which citizens agree to make tax payments in return for more accountable governance and increased influence in government decision-making.
26 August 2014
Published by: IDS
Systems thinking has started to appear within the discourse around 'business and development', as governments, donors and NGOs are increasingly seeking to leverage private initiatives to have broad impacts on development goals.
5 December 2012
Published by: IDS
In this paper we challenge the theory of change behind the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer Programme Oportunidades, by questioning whether it sufficiently addresses the structural factors that prevent its poorest group of beneficiaries, indigenous people, from climbing out of poverty.
The Development Studies Learning Partnership was created under the BRICS Initiative in 2011, and enables collaborative learning between traditional and emerging actors in development, be they academics, researchers, practitioners or policy-makers.