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1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.
1 January 1999
This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
Despite widespread agreement that economic policy in developing countries should promote pro-poor growth, there is relatively little consensus regarding the definition of pro-poor growth.
1 January 1999
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political
participation are the...
How can poor people fight corruption? Contemporary ‘good governance’ policies of development agencies stress the relationship between an open official information regime – particularly transparency in official development expenditure accounts – and government accountability.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper is a motivated by the need to expand research on social capital and its effects on poverty. Studies of social capital and its economic payoffs have tended to focus on industrialised countries, whilst those studies which have focused on developing countries have been based on micro level survey data.
2 October 1997
Published by: IDS
Community-based sustainable development' has become a central approach to rural development and natural resource management. But this emerging consensus tends to overlook both ecological variability, and the potential for conflict within local communities
1 January 1997
Published by: IDS
This report examines the relationship between the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a controversial dam under construction in western India, and Kutch, which is supposed to benefit from the dam.
1 January 1996
Published by: IDS
This paper conceptualises poverty as the product of multiple, and frequently interlocking, forms of institutional exclusion and focuses on the exclusion of the poor from mainstream financial institutions in India in order to analyse the rules, norms and procedures by which this occurs.