Introduction: Elites, Perceptions and Poverties
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We had a lot of fun producing this book. The field investigations were stimulating in their own right, but all the more exhilarating...
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Published by: Zed Press
We had a lot of fun producing this book. The field investigations were stimulating in their own right, but all the more exhilarating...
Published by: Zed Press
Much of the time, the realists are probably right. The question of how often they are right cannot be settled through social science...
Published by: Zed Press
Published by: IDS
Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS, is an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local
communities to stop open...
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Building on a pilot market research activity in Kenya in March 2004, this trip was one of a series of field visits to meet development practitioners, policy-makers and researchers in their working environment, to find out how research materials are used and accessed in those countries.
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in expanding primary education, especially for girls, despite continuing prevalence of...
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin presents wide-ranging contributions from the three-year Imp-Act programme of action research, a partnership of 30 MFOs in 20 countries and three UK universities.
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There is an influential, orthodox explanation of the success of large scale micro-credit programmes, based particularly on interpretations of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. There are three core elements: the alleged importance of strong social bonds among small borrower groups; the notion of substantial borrower participation in management; and the belief in the centrality of charging unsubsidised rates of interest.
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A new approach being pioneered by the author (Dr Kamal Kar, Social and Participatory Development Consultant from Calcutta, India) with Village Education Resource Centre (VERC), Water Aid in Bangladesh and other agencies concentrates on empowering local people to analyse the extent and risk of environmental pollution caused by open defecation, and to construct toilets without any external subsidies.