OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Research Methods and Visualisation Tools for Online LGBT Communities
(IDS, 2014-08)Field research among geographically dispersed communities is time-consuming and costly. When people are stigmatised, field research has additional ethical and logistical problems. In many countries lesbian, gay, bisexual ... -
Environmental and Resource Economics: Some Recent Developments
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Ensuring ‘Collective Action’ in ‘Participatory’ Forest Management
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Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo's South Kivu
(IDS, 2012-03-20)South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced recurrent wars for more than 15 years. This Research Report explores the way local systems of governance and networking in South Kivu have been ... -
A Village-Up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction: Multilayered and Networked Governance
(IDS, 2012-05-14)Sierra Leone not only has a direct relationship with its citizens as individuals but also a mediated one through the rural governance systems that pre-dated colonialism and often have greater legitimacy than the central ... -
Security Systems in Francophone Africa
(IDS, 2010-06-15)This research report is a broad-based study that seeks to understand the structural and developmental processes that characterise the security sector in Francophone Africa. Although each country has a distinct political ... -
Reginald Herbold Green: biography
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Security Management in Northern Mali: Criminal Networks and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
(IDS, 2012-08-14)The three principle and intertwining security threats in the North of Mali are trafficking (drugs, arms, cigarettes, cars, etc.), rebellious uprisings and terrorist activity. Any attempts at maintaining law and order are ... -
Basic Human Needs: A Strategic Conceptualization Toward Another Development
(1980)'Basic human needs' is presented as a concept of another development in contrast to the, until recently, prevailing concept centred on maximizing accumulation, fixed investment, growth of output and 'modernization*. BHN ... -
The Russian Federation’s International Development Assistance Programme: A State of the Debate Report
(IDS, 2014-08)Russia is unique among emerging donors for being a ‘re-emerging’ donor: the Soviet Union was one of the largest donor countries in the world, and Russia’s period as an aid recipient was relatively brief. Russian development ... -
Maharashtra’s Child Stunting Declines: What is Driving Them? Findings of a Multidisciplinary Analysis
(2014-08-05)Between 2006 and 2012, Maharashtra’s stunting rate among children under two years of age was reported to decline by 15 percentage points – one of the fastest declines in stunting seen anywhere at any time. This was ... -
Strategies of feminist bureaucrats : perspectives from international NGOs
(IDS, 2012)This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in international non-governmental development organisations, as analysed from an insider ... -
Shocks and social protection in the Horn of Africa : analysis from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2012)Using panel data from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program, this paper explores the degree to which this social protection programme has been successful in protecting its beneficiaries against the various shocks ... -
From deprivation to distribution : is global poverty becoming a matter of national inequality?
(IDS, 2012)This paper asks the following question: does the shift in global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs) mean that global poverty is becoming a matter of national inequality? This paper argues that many of the ... -
Where do the world's poor live? : a new update
(IDS, 2012)This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied ‘poverty paradox’ – the fact that most of the world’s ...
