Publications

Insecticide use and increased mortality in rural Central Luzon, Philippines

Micro-Electronics and Employment Revisited: A Review

This study looks at the direct and indirect effects of micro-electronics, and attempts to show how patterns of employment are linked to various aspects of the micro-electronic revolution.

Gender and Work in the Third World: Sexual Divisions in Brazilian Industry

Brazil, one of the Third World's most industrialized countries, is used as the focus for this in-depth case study which looks at domestic labour, family ideologies, and the distinctive working careers of women and men.

John Humphrey

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally. Despite notable successes there is doubt and criticism about the...

Adjustment with a Human Face Volume 1 – Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

After three decades of progress in improving child welfare, there was a marked reversal in many parts of the world in the 1980s, associated with the deteriorating economic situation. This study illustrates the extent of the crisis and indicates ways to avoid or alleviate the ill-effects of...

Richard Jolly

Introduction: Aid-effectiveness, Prisoners’ Dilemmas, and Country Allocation

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In theory – and in project and country experience – aid has proved its potential to stimulate growth, and sometimes to reduce poverty. But the record has been worsening, for four reasons.

Decentralisation: A Progress Report

Decentralisation and Democracy

The World Economy Since the War: The Politics of Uneven Development

This book, written by a former IDS Fellow, analyses the development and transformation of international organizations through the post-war boom, the ensuing recession, the changing strengths of the capitalist countries and the evolving crisis of development experienced in the Third World.

Developmental States in East Asia: Editorial Introduction

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The papers in this IDS Bulletin focus on different aspects of the historical experience of state economic involvement in three East Asian NICs, one socialist (China) and two capitalist (Taiwan and South Korea).

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s: Open Economies in a Closing World

This book explores the issues of industrial growth in the 1980s.

Law and Order Statistics in the Third World

IDS Discussion Paper;189

This paper is about the unreliability of crime statistics in developing countries. There are many operational, technical, institutional, social and cultural reasons for these inaccuracies. What the police do when an offence is reported and whether they treat it as a crime is the most...