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

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    • Using Climate Information in Africa: Some Examples Related to Drought, Rainfall Forecasting and Global Warming 

      Hulme, Mike (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary The strong influence of climate upon the distribution and utilization of Africa's natural resources occurs through both its mean state and through its temporal variability. The latter aspect has received increasing ...

    • Natural Resource Management: the Reproduction and Use of Environmental Misinformation in Guinea's Forest?Savanna Transition Zone 

      Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary An erroneous analysis of environmental change has informed environmental policy in part of Guinea for a century. Using this case study, the relationship between the production of information about environmental ...

    • Videos and Violence on the Periphery: Rambo and War in the Forests of the Sierra Leone?Liberia Border 

      Richards, Paul (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Global electronic information (including the ‘information’ young people derive from fictional television images) are facts of life on the periphery as well as in the metropolis. There are now no longer any truly ...

    • New Information Technology — Old Information Habits? 

      Lucas, Henry (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Recently, ‘information’ has been viewed as an essential requirement for effective and efficient management, and as a basis for medium and long term planning. The establishment of ‘information systems’ and the ...

    • Getting and Using Knowledge about the Poor (with Latin American case material) 

      Kadt, Emanuel de (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Information systems concerned with poverty reduction programmes suffer less from a scarcity of information, more from an undigested mass of data and a lack of limited and focused information, relevant to the ...

    • Ngos in the Age of Information 

      Edwards, Michael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Over the past decade, the majority of development NGOs have been engaged in a systematic transition from an exclusively project?oriented approach to the work, to a concern with the broader processes of development ...

    • The Changing Role of Government Statistical Agencies 

      Eele, Graham (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary The article argues that the basic premise that quantitative data are important to support decision?taking and policy analysis is still valid; official statistics are a public good. However, a radical view is ...

    • Communication Support for Sustainable Natural Resource Management 

      Röling, Niels (Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/1994)
      Summary Natural Resource Management (NRM) can be looked upon from different perspectives: (1) the bio?physical science perspective, (2) the economic perspective and (3) the social actor perspective. After briefly contrasting ...

    • EDITORIAL: THE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: SUB?SAHARAN AFRICA 1980–1993 

      Green, Reginald Herbold; Faber, Mike (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Two major problems confront an outsider seeking to understand, or a newcomer seeking to participate in structural adjustment: first it has a deceptively familiar terminology in which familiar words have specialized ...

    • GOVERNANCE, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND TRANSFORMATION 

      Aboyade, Professor Oje (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Reconceptualizing development in terms of people as means and ends requires reassessing the roles of the state and of leadership. In general the SSA record in respect of both has been poor. The requirements for ...

    • PUBLIC FINANCE: EXPENDITURE ALLOCATING, RESOURCES RAISING 

      Green, Reginald Herbold (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary National budgets in SSA have major impacts on macro, sectoral and micro economic results simply by being very large relative to total demand and also to supply of most human investment services and of infrastructure. ...

    • ECONOMIC INTEGRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS 

      Mwase, Ngila (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Eastern and Southern Africa has a long history of efforts to achieve operational economic integration and a complex set of overlapping institutional frames. The gains from successful cooperation are agreed ? the ...

    • STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: A TREASURY EXPERIENCE 

      Kipokola, Jonas P. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary African countries have built up substantial bodies of experience on Structural Adjustment design, negotiation, implementation and results/limitations. These information banks could usefully be more widely shared. ...

    • PRODUCTION BY POOR PEOPLE 

      Green, Reginald Herbold (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Almost one third of all sub?Saharan Africans are absolutely poor. That proportion is rising whereas in the only comparable case ? South Asia ? it is falling. Absolute poverty damages a polity and a society ? not ...

    • SOME REFLECTIONS ON COUNTRY EXPERIENCES WITH STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT 

      O'Brien, Steve (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Structural adjustment has been carried on for almost a decade and a half and now encompasses 29 country programmes. Results are mixed and evaluations of out?turns and causes somewhat contentious. The most recent ...

    • STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY: GHANA 1983–1992 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Ghana entered structural adjustment in 1983 following a decade of economic stagnation and three years of crisis triggered by drought. Price (e.g. interest rate, foreign exchange, cocoa) distortion seriously limited ...

    • TRANSITIONAL PERIOD ECONOMIC REFORM PROGRAMME IN ETHIOPIA: 1991–93 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary When the Ethiopian civil war ended with the installation of the Transitional National Government in 1991, the economy faced massive fiscal, external account and food imbalances compounded by large external arrears ...

    • ESSENTIALS FOR AFRICAN ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION 

      Aboyade, Oje (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary Africa's recurrent economic crises and failure to respond adequately imply failures of intellectual analysis, political will and policy formulation as well as adverse external shocks. Structural adjustment can be ...

    • THROUGH STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TO TRANSFORMATION: COUNTRY PARTICIPANTS' SEMINAR REPORT 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1994)
      Summary The participants agreed that structural imbalances related to internal policies as well as external shocks and required structural adjustment in their countries. They also agreed that to date, structural adjustment ...

    • Linking Relief and Development: An Introduction and Overview 

      Buchanan?Smith, Margaret; Maxwell, Simon (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The article explores why the idea of ‘linking relief and development’ has become popular, but also why implementation is slow. It reviews frameworks of analysis, and identifies (a) development interventions that ...