Publications

Small Shoemakers and Fordist Giants: Tale of a Supercluster

This paper investigates a success story from a country in crisis: the shoe industry of the Sinos Valley in Brazil. The main question is to what extent the industrial district model captures the reality of the Sinos Valley. In many ways it does. The sectoral and geographical concentration of shoe...

Hubert Schmitz

Challenging the Populist Perspective: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

Ian Scoones

John Thompson

Retos Metodológicos para la Investigacióny Extensión Agrícolas: Valorando los Procesos

Taxation, Risk and Real Interest Rates

Household Food Security: Concepts and Definitions: An Annotated Bibliography

The concept of 'food security' is found as early as the 1970s, but the concept of 'household food security' is more recent: the bulk of the literature dates from the 1980s. This annotated Bibliography contains nearly 200 items which together trace developments in the concept of household food...

Expenditure and Financing of the Health Sector in Kenya: Abridged Report of a Study Performed for the Ministry of Health and the World Bank

This Study provides one of the most detailed country profiles to date of health expenditure and financing flows in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gerald Bloom

Good Government?

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It is little more than three years since the Berlin Wall began to crumble. In that time, the political context and content of development aid to the Third World has changed rather dramatically.

Mick Moore

Violence Against Women in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Senegal and Yemen

This report focuses on gender based violence in Bangladesh and Pakistan as there is very little information available on the other countries. The social and political context of gender based violence is discussed in both countries. Specific forms of violence and issues relating to prostitution...

Background Paper on Gender Issues in Ghana

How much autonomy do women in Ghana have? Does this equal that of men? Women in West Africa, and in particular Ghana, are often assumed to enjoy a greater degree of personal and economic independence than women in other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. While relatively speaking this may be true,...

Economic Liberalization, Political Pluralism and Business Associations in Developing Countries

Mick Moore

The Role of Government in the Finance of Business in Botswana

Human Resources and the Diffusion and Adaptation of New Quality Methods in Brazilian Manufacturing

This Research Report presents the results of a survey of the use of Japanese-inspired organization of work in 18 firms in Brazil.

John Humphrey