1980 - 1989: Recent submissions

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    • Organising the Annapurna 

      Savara, Mira (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1981)
      SUMMARY This article describes how a scattered group of women in Bombay, who cook for male migrant workers in their own homes, organised to improve their working conditions. Although isolated from each other, and with ...

    • Women of the Working Poor 

      Moser, Caroline; Young, Kate (Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1981)
      SUMMARY This article discusses the debate on the relationship between the informal sector [IS] and the formal or capitalist sector, and notes that the link between the two argued in terms of the functionality of the IS ...

    • The Social and Scientific Context of Rapid Rural Appraisal 

      Wood, Geof D. (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 

      L., R. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)

    • Research Methodology and Rural Economy in Northern Nigeria 

      Longhurst, Richard (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 

      Belshaw, Deryke (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 

      Richards, Paul (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 

      Moore, Mick (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 

      Palmer, Ingrid (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 

      Howes, Mick (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 

      Unknown author (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 

      Unknown author (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)

    • Data collection in Developing Countries 

      Casley, D.,J.,; Lury, D.A.; Richard, Longhurst (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)

    • Education and Social Change: a Photographic Study of Peru 

      Young, Kate (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1981)

    • Foreword 

      Seers, Dudley (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)

    • Editorial 

      Griffith-Jones, Stephany (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)

    • Latin American Monetarism in Crisis 

      Felix, David (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)
      SUMMARY This article discusses the basic features of monetarist thinking, stressing the differences between their application to advanced capitalist countries and the semi?industrialised Latin American economies. The ...

    • ‘Monetarism’ in the UK and the Southern Cone: an overview 

      Wells, John (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)
      SUMMARY This article discusses common patterns—as well as differences—between the ‘new orthodoxy’ of monetarism applied in the United Kingdom and that of the Latin American Southern Cone. In both cases, it interprets this ...

    • The New Recycling: Economic Theory, IMF Conditionality and Balance of Payments Adjustment in the 1980s 

      Daniel, Philip (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)
      SUMMARY Proposals for new methods of recycling funds to deficit countries, and for increasing the roles of the IMF and World Bank in the process, now make the economic theory behind adjustment programmes a vital matter ...

    • The New Leviathan: the Chicago School and the Chilean Regime 1973–80 

      O'Brien, Philip (Institute of Development Studies, 01/12/1981)
      SUMMARY This article gives a broad overview of the political economy of Chile since the military coup of 11 September 1973. Its main concern is with analysing the Chicago economic model being imposed in Chile, and how ...