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Somewhere over the rainbow? : the politics and dilemmas of researching citizenship and marginality

Published by: IDS

Research on development is normative, engaged and seeks to make a difference since it focuses on the excluded, on power relations and...

Making Health Markets Work Better for Poor People: the Case of Informal Providers

There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster...

Changing Narratives of Sexuality

Published by: Zed Books

Changing Narratives of Sexuality engages with women's sexuality exploring marginal as well as dominant stories in which sexuality may figure overtly or covertly as the subject. This impressive collection brings together a broad range of arenas in which sexuality is embedded.

Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s

Published by: IDS

Privatisation of both the ownership and control o f state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is an increasingly central feature o f all national...

Gender in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations

Published by: GSDRC

This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available

Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index – data by country

This series presents key data on government commitment to reduce hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. Country scorecards detail government performance on reducing hunger and undernutrition in the areas of public spending, policies and laws the series is based on findings from the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index.

Elites, Oil and Violence Mitigation in the Niger Delta

Published by: IDS

The crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta in Nigeria is one of the world's forgotten conflicts in which thousands have been killed and the country’s vital oil industry has suffered.

Young People and Agriculture in Africa

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from the conference on 'Young People, Farming and Food' in Accra, Ghana. This conference examined how young people engage with the agri-food sector in Africa and how research findings were being integrated into policy processes.

Where Do The World’s Poor Live? A New Update

Published by: IDS

This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied 'poverty paradox' – the fact that most of the world's extreme poor no longer live in the world's poorest countries.

China and the African Oil Sector: Channels of Engagement, Motives, Actors and Impacts

Published by: IDS

Recently China has experienced high economic growth and increased urbanisation. At the same time, it has become known as the ‘factory of the world’.