Volumes 31 - 40: Recent submissions
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Does Social Policy Meet Social Needs?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries This article asks whether social policy in the South meets social needs. We argue that in poor countries, social policy as conventionally designed and delivered leaves the needs of the poor inadequately addressed ... -
Social Exclusion, Poverty and Discrimination
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries Although the concept of social exclusion has its origins in northern social policy discourses, it can add value to attempts to think about social policy in the context of development if it can provide a unifying ... -
Gender and Citizenship
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries This article explores the values and limitations of a rights?based approach to development focusing in particular on its potential for extending notions of citizenship to include women. It discusses the function ... -
What Do You Mean, ‘Social Policy Analysis’?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries This article explores some of the methods used by donor agencies to undertake ‘social analysis’. The intention is to consider those activities which appear to come under this heading and the related materials ... -
Editorial Introduction
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‘We Make the Law and the Law Makes Us’:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries How much does law really matter in the lives of the poor? The article develops a relational theory of law as a politically determined resource that emerges from the interactions between agents of the state and ... -
Customary Law in Common Law Systems
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries How can the idea of the ‘rule of law’ be made a reality for ordinary people in African countries where customary law still underpins popular experience of ‘law as practice’? It is argued that the idea of law ... -
The Underside of Conflict Management — in Africa and Elsewhere
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries This article traces the evolution of thought on dispute resolution in recent decades and takes a critical look at its latest incarnation, the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) revolution. It argues that ADR ... -
Cocoa Booms, the Legalisation of Land Relations and Politics in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries How does ‘law as practice’ affect the economic and political behaviour of ordinary people? It is argued that the degree of legalisation of land relations and the degree of competition between regulatory orders ... -
Land Administration Reforms and Social Differentiation:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries The Lands Commission, as constituted under 1994 legislation, currently manages all public and vested lands and gives consent and concurrence to transactions of land held under customary or community tenure and ... -
Legal Pluralism and Social Justice in Economic and Political Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries Legal pluralism is an approach which accepts the possibility that, within any given polity, there can be more than one ‘legal order’ and that the state is not the exclusive source of legal regulation. Nevertheless, ... -
The Public Prosecutor's Office and Legal Change in Brazil
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries In Brazil there is a significant gap between legality and reality. Legal Brazil is a country of equality and extensive rights, while the real Brazil is amongst the most unequal in the world and rights are ... -
Community Justice and Community Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries Reform of policing in South Africa forms a critical part of the transition from white minority, authoritarian rule to a more democratic system that reflects the aspirations of the majority African communities. ... -
Access to Environmental Justice?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries This article assesses the role different forms of litigation can play in holding transnational companies to account for their social and environmental responsibilities. The incongruence between the increasingly ... -
Globalisation:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/2001)Summaries This article shows the intimate links between human?rights discourses today and globalisation. It highlights how rights discourses have contributed greatly to the radical critique of developmentalism, reconfiguring ... -
Introduction Globalisation and Insecurity
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At Peace but Insecure
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries This article examines the forms of insecurity which have developed in the societies of the Commonwealth of Independent States since the USSR broke up in 1991. That huge political upheaval was remarkable for the ... -
Globalisation and Economic Insecurity
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries As global processes have deepened in recent decades there has been a concomitant and causally related increase in economic insecurity in many parts of the global economy. One transmission mechanism has been the ... -
Insecurity, Conflict and the New Global Disorder
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries The current neoliberal preoccupation with the benefits of globalisation, which have been hailed as the great panacea for all the world's economic problems, has done little for the 1.3 billion people whose economic ... -
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post?Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the ...
