Volumes 21 - 30: Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development: Recent submissions
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Gender and Land Rights:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article argues that the goals of social justice, poverty alleviation and gender equality within the post?apartheid government's land reform programme are threatened by government's neo?liberal macroeconomic ... -
Men in Women's Groups:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries The article is an examination of the meanings associated with women's clubs in sub?Saharan Africa. Such clubs have frequently been treated by donors as the preferred vehicle for policies of poverty alleviation. ... -
Post Poverty, Gender and Development?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries Poverty reduction lies at the heart of development discourses and practice. Yet it is a notion which is rooted in Enlightenment thought, and increasingly questioned by the intellectual currents which deny ... -
Methods for Environmental Entitlements Analysis
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary This article examines practical methods which can assist the application of the environmental entitlements approach to field?based situations. It introduces a ‘toolbox’ of methods relevant to livelihood analysis, ... -
Challenges to Community?Based Sustainable Development: Dynamics, Entitlements, Institutions
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Recent approaches to community?based natural resource management frequently present ‘communities’ as consensual units, able to act collectively in restoring population?resource imbalances or reestablishing harmonious ... -
Editorial: Community?Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict?
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Representing Communities: The Case of a Community?Based Watershed Management Project in Rajas than, India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary In India donors, governmental and non?governmental organisations (NGOs) are currently investing heavily in participatory watershed development, yet with only partial success. Focusing on a community?based watershed ... -
Local Resource Management in the Forest? Savanna Transition Zone: The Case of Wenchi District, Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary In Ghana's forest?savanna transition zone, recent ecological debates counterpose the dominant view that human activities cause progressive savannisation of forests, with competing views that the forest?savanna ... -
Communities, Entitlements and Nature Reserves: The Case of the Wild Coast, South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary ‘Community?based sustainable development’ has become central to the development rhetoric of the new South Africa, whereby local communities are expected to be involved in decisions from which they were previously ... -
How Do Rights Become Real?: Formal and Informal Institutions in South Africa's Land Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Central components of South Africa's post?apartheid land reform comprise ambitious and wide?ranging ‘rights?based’ laws and programmes. But how do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over ... -
Conflicts Around Forest Reserves in Zimbabwe: What Prospects for Community Management?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Due to the failure of the post?independent state to address the land inequities of the colonial era, conflicts over land resources are prevalent in Zimbabwe. This is particularly the case in and around state forest ... -
Social Difference and Water Resource Management: Insights from Kutch, india
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary The article focuses on the interface between water resources management and social and power relations. It shows that the propagators of both macro and micro?level water interventions have flawed notions of local ... -
Institutions, Consensus and Conflict: Implications for Policy and Practice
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary This article reflects on the challenges faced when the ideal of consensual communities is questioned. A more complex view of institutional relationships at the local level is envisaged, one which emphasises conflict ... -
Editorial: Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South
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Comparisons, Convergence and Connections: Development Sudies in North and South
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary Increasing poverty and social exclusion (PSE) open up the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South on three issues of successively greater depth: first, new comparisons or lessons to be drawn across ... -
Low Income Dynamics in 1990s Britain
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary This article analyses low income dynamics in Britain using the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey. There is much low income turnover; although there is a small group of people who are persistently ... -
‘SocialExclusion’: An Alternative Concept for the Study of Deprivation?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary Arjan de Haan's article introduces the concept of social exclusion and compares it to notions of deprivation that are more common in development studies. He argues that although there is substantial overlap between ... -
Behind the Rhetoric: The Institutional Basis of Social Exclusion and Poverty
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary This article argues that theoretical discussion of different policy assumptions between social exclusion and poverty as elaborated by Silver should always be strongly grounded in their policy context. The concept ... -
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature of international development in the 1990s. Policies to enhance and strengthen participation have long been used in the North ... -
Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in Post?Communist Societies
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1998)Summary Poverty has increased with the shift to the market economy in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and families with children have been particularly exposed to social deprivation. However, a ...
