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1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This paper is a story of the making of a policy, one that included many different players, located across a variety of sites. By tracing...
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This paper seeks to identify and explain the ways in which different firms affected by and involved in the debate about the role of...
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This paper explores the dynamic interaction of global and more local knowledge about agriculture, food
and rural development through a...
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
Publicly provided education systems are increasingly being seen as unable to address the specific
educational needs of poor and...
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
How can public sector service providers deliver improved services to citizens within environments where
inefficient and often corrupt...
Poverty reduction has never been more salient in discussions of development than in recent times. The global commitment to the Millennium Development Goals and the strong preoccupation with poverty in certain key donor agencies have raised its profile.
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses social sector priorities of the Indian government in the period 1990-2001. This is done by a study of the most crucial policy documents: the annual budgets.
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
This paper outlines an analytic framework for understanding legal change, using as an illustration the process by which India's inheritance laws (in particular the Hindu Succession Act (HSA) of 1956) have moved toward gender equality.
1 January 2002
Published by: Wageningen University Press
The levels of air pollutants are rapidly increasing in many ‘megacities’ of the developing world. Air pollution reduces both the...
1 January 2002