Volumes 21 - 30: Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development: Recent submissions

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    • Are Coping Strategies a Cop Out? 

      Davies, Susanna (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1993)
      Summary Few would dispute the legitimacy of putting indigenous coping strategies firmly on the food security and famine mitigation agenda. Yet the idea of coping strategies needs to be regarded with caution, especially ...

    • Famine as the Outcome of Political Production and Market Failures 

      Braun, Joachim von; Teklu, Tesfaye; Webb, Patrick (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1993)
      Summary Famines are not explainable as short?term crisis events; they are more a function of long?term trends resulting from a failure of policy to deal appropriately with demographic, environmental, productivity, and ...

    • INTRODUCTION 

      Kaplinsky, Raphael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)

    • THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY: A FRAMEWORK FOR MACROECONOMIC POLICY: Extracted from the ANC Macroeconomic Research Group (MERG) Report entitled ‘Making Democracy Work: A Framework for Macroeconomic Policy in South Africa’, December 1993 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)

    • MONETARY AND FINANCIAL POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA: REDISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM? 

      Harvey, Charles; Jenkins, Carolyn (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary Unlike many other countries in sub?Saharan Africa, South Africa's sophisticated financial system provides considerable opportunity for using monetary policy for macroeconomic objectives. Liberalized financial ...

    • AN INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY FOR A POST?APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA 

      Joffe, Avril; Kaplan, David; Kaplinsky, Raphael; Lewis, David (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary This article addresses the need to revive industrial growth in the context of a global industrial environment in which competitive pressures are not only growing but are also changing in nature. Four linked ...

    • MANUFACTURING IN SOUTH AFRICAN MICROENTERPRISES 

      Manning, Claudia; Mashigo, Angela Pinky (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary This article is based on research into manufacturing microenterprises in South Africa conducted by the authors for the Industrial Strategy Project. The paper documents the principal research results which emerged ...

    • RESTRUCTURING SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE 

      And, Merle; Lipton, Michael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary There is disagreement about whether agricultural reform is a priority for south Africa, the authors argue that apartheid policies, which discriminated against labour?intensive, especially small?scale farming, led ...

    • POLICIES TOWARDS INWARD FOREIGN INVESTMENT 

      Brown, Roland; Faber, Mike; Sisulu, Max (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary This article considers the policies which a democratic government of South Africa should adopt towards inward foreign investment and what instruments should be sued to give effect to those policies. The article ...

    • THE TAXATION OF MINERAL RENT UNDER SOUTH AFRICA'S MINING TAX REFORMS 

      Daniel, Philip (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary In common with many other countries, South Africa has operated a special system for the taxation of mining income. During most of the twentieth century the taxation of mining has provided a substantial proportion ...

    • THE CHALLENGES FACING SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES 

      Gourley, Brenda; Morris, Mike (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary Immense challenges face South African universities at this time of transition towards a non?racial, democratic society. Such challenges are varied since the universities suffer in different ways from their history ...

    • EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: PRESENT CONSTRAINTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES 

      Colclough, Christopher; Pillay, Pundy (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary Decades of inequality in the provision of education in South Africa have led to a highly differential system, with far greater resources being made available, on a per capita basis, to the White population than ...

    • POLICIES FOR PEACE 

      Graham, Paul (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary Without widespread peace in South Africa there can be little hope for any successful post?apartheid policy agenda. At present violence is widespread and specific policies will have to be generated to foster peace ...

    • FORMULATING POLICY FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA: SOME OBSERVATIONS 

      Mboweni, Tito (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1994)
      Summary This article describes the constitutional process of policy formulation within the ANC and its links with other organizations which have been prominent in the struggle to overthrow Apartheid. It discusses the ...

    • Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Power 

      Davies, Susanna (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)

    • All Power Deceives 

      Chambers, Robert (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Explanations of errors in past development theory and practice include changes in development conditions in professional norms and in modes of learning. How a fourth dimension, power, contributes to error is ...

    • From Feminist Knowledge to Data for Development: The Bureaucratic Management of Information on Women and Development 

      Goetz, Anne Marie (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Information about women's experiences of development has been iterated to the development process in ways which reflect dominant development paradigms, and in ways which reflect the ambient gender politics and ...

    • Alternative Systems of Inquiry for a Sustainable Agriculture 

      Pretty, Jules N (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Scientific investigation has long been dominated by positivism, which holds that an independent reality driven by immutable laws exists. Consequently, it should be possible to define sustainability in absolute ...

    • Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement 

      Greeley, Martin (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition?based estimate of minimum income or expenditure. There is widespread criticism ...

    • Food Security: Let them Eat Information 

      Buchanan?Smith, Margaret; Davies, Susanna; Petty, Celia (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Improved capacity to predict drought?induced famines has not led to a concomitant improvement in famine prevention. In a comparative study of five African countries, this article argues that the failure to translate ...