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1 January 2003
Published by: Zed Books
This three-book series is the product of an IDS-based research programme, funded by the Department for International Development, which explored variations in democratic institutions in countries emerging from violent conflict.
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
The effects of trade on women varies depending on their educational level, their family circumstances and their tasks within households. What is the gender impact of promotion of non-traditional agricultural exports in Zambia? And that of tariff reduction?
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
This paper provides a critical overview of debates about the role of the state in development in a context of globalisation. It is argued that globalisation can best be thought of as a political project that has to be understood in the context of the historical setting in which it is evolving and at the same time helping to define.
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
The main purpose of this paper is to review and assess key analytical approaches that are used to understand the linkages between trade, poverty and livelihoods, with a view to better understanding their linkages in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
1 January 2002
The paper by David and Mancini documents the struggle to institutionalize the new system and the extraordinary changes that it has engendered.
1 January 2002
Organisational Learning - Background Information Organisational learning, in which leaders and managers give priority to learning as integral to practice, is increasingly recognized as critical to improved performance.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This Working Paper argues that armed conflicts have been the single most important determinant of poverty and human misery in Sub-Saharan Africa, affecting more than half the countries of the continent during the past two decades.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
Educationally, pastoralists appear to be a paradox. From the point of view of official education they are a complete failure: in terms of enrolment, attendance, classroom performance, achievement, continuity to higher education and gender balance they regularly score badly.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses the particular approach to participatory development developed by SPEECH, an NGO working in Tamil Nadu, India. We explore the extent to which SPEECH's approach transformed gender relations in the communities where they work.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper builds on previous work on Bangladesh that set out the principles of a gendered computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach by accounting for household work and leisure in addition to standard market sectors.