Volume 12, Issue 4
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The Social and Scientific Context of Rapid Rural Appraisal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY Aspects of RRA are discussed which suggest how a divergence might occur between its social and scientific value, as a positivist exercise. It often serves only a legitimating function for policies already confirmed ... -
Editorial
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Research Methodology and Rural Economy in Northern Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY The principles of methodology of a research project in Northern Nigeria involving the collection of both farm management and nutrition data are described. This was a study of breadth rather than depth and so clear ... -
A Theoretical Framework For Data?Economising Appraisal Procedures, with Applications to Rural Development Planning
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY The objective of the paper is to construct a general framework which will help to increase the usefulness and reduce the cost of collecting data for public decision?making about development in low?income countries. ... -
Appraising Appraisal – Towards Improved Dialogue in Rural Planning
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY It is argued that even the most elaborate social surveys in the development field are one?sided, in that they answer their sponsors' questions, and not those of the people surveyed. Rapid Rural Appraisal has no ... -
Beyond the Tarmac Road: a Guide for Rural Poverty Watchers
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY In rural Sri Lanka the homesteads of the poor are systematically located away from roadsides and thus from the view of the casual visitor. There is a spatial dimension to socio?economic inequality which the external ... -
Women's Issues and Project Appraisal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY Exploring issues especially concerning women involves many of the difficulties found in evaluating the position of the poorest and most invisible. In addition the paucity of background literature may mean a weaker ... -
Confessions of a Fieldworker–How I stratified a Rural Population
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY This article takes as its point of departure an earlier paper which attempted to assess the accuracy of various relatively rapid means of stratifying a rural population in Bangladesh. The argument advanced is that ... -
An RRA Case Study: the Cotton Project in The Gambia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)SUMMARY A project to diversify agriculture by encouraging cotton production has been started in The Gambia and it was appraised recently by members of a Food Strategy Team in association with the Ministry of Agriculture. ... -
Appendix: List of IDS Conference Papers on Rapid Rural Appraisal
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Data collection in Developing Countries
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Education and Social Change: a Photographic Study of Peru
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)
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