Volumes 41 - 46: Recent submissions
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The Digital Age: A Feminist Future for the Queer African Woman
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)How can digital spaces make possible a feminist future for the queer African woman? Writing as the editors of a South African queer online space, HOLAA!, this article aims to draw attention to and discuss queer digital ... -
Glossary
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Brazilian Feminisms in Global Spaces: Beijing and Beijing+20
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Within the last decades, feminist movements in Brazil have advanced significantly beyond borders, gaining increasing recognition in global spaces, UN ones in particular, for positively influencing Brazil's official position. ... -
If Not Now, When? Reasserting Beijing for a Progressive Women's Rights Agenda in 2015 and Beyond
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Women's rights organisations have been central to progress on women's rights and gender equality since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). Drawing on interviews and a survey carried out ... -
Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Changing Perspectives in Business and Development
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)While development debates have largely shifted away from the polarised view of ‘state versus market’, significant divergences in understandings and approaches remain about the roles and potentials of business, state and ... -
Private Sector and Waste Management in Delhi: A Political Economy Perspective
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)Due to their size and rapid growth, large cities in developing countries are increasingly challenged by burgeoning waste generation. Waste management, however, has traditionally provided employment opportunities to the ... -
Smallholder Farmers in the Speciality Coffee Industry: Opportunities, Constraints and the Businesses that are Making it Possible
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)Coffee has traditionally been a commodity product sold in a highly competitive and saturated global market. This lack of product differentiation has made coffee farmers very vulnerable to fluctuating prices. During the ... -
Markets for Nutrition: What Role for Business?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)Policymakers are increasingly seeking to use food systems to help reduce rates of chronic undernutrition and to use markets to deliver nutrient?rich foods to vulnerable populations. This article examines how this might be ... -
The United Nations and Business: Towards New Modes of Global Governance?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)In the last decade and a half there have been sustained efforts on the part of the United Nations to bring the business sector into formal arrangements for dialogue and cooperation and to codify United Nations policies ... -
Is Systemic Change Part of Pro?poor Business Approaches?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)Business is increasingly seen as central to international development, given the power of companies within markets and other related systems that affect the lives of the poor. However, there is a rising sense that these ... -
Explore, Scale Up, Move Out: Three Phases to Managing Change under Conditions of Uncertainty
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)Private sector development is dominated by the use of ‘good practice’ solutions, driven by a desire of the development donors to control the outcome of development initiatives – with limited success. Bottom?up participatory ... -
Bangladesh Health Service Delivery: Innovative NGO and Private Sector Partnerships
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)The recent health service delivery achievements in Bangladesh have been attributed, in part, to partnerships between the government and non?state actors and the early and rapid adoption of innovations. Through the analysis ... -
Building Back Better: Business Contributing to a New Economic Paradigm
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/05/2015)The sort of growth cultivated in the last few decades has come without sufficient regard to its quality or distribution. In business, excessive focus on shareholder value and short?term objectives is problematic for social ... -
Glossary
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Notes on Contributors
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Democratic Governance for Social Justice: The Politics of Social Protection
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/11/2011)This overview introduces three articles that examine some of the varying forms and dimensions of the politics of social protection policies and programmes, to give us an insight into their transformative potential. The ... -
Introduction: Social Protection for Social Justice
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/11/2011)The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics ... -
One Step Beyond: From Social Protection Recipients to Citizens
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/11/2011)This article confronts theoretical links between rights, citizenship and social protection, reviewing discourses on rights and citizenship and revealing fault?lines and trade?offs. Through the Hunger Safety Net Programme ... -
Social Protection to Address the Drivers of Vulnerability: A Bridge too Far?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/11/2011)Social protection has moved high up on the development agenda and is increasingly considered to be an inherent part of the response to poverty reduction. At the same time, it has received criticism for its current tools ...
