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21 April 2010
Implementation of the 1999-2003 Country Strategy for Swedish Development Cooperation with Vietnam
Sida’s country strategies involve both the overall strategic orientation expressed in the five-year country strategy papers (CSPs) and...
1 September 2009
Making the Case for Aid: The Challenge of UK Public Perceptions
Published by: IDS
Aid budgets face immense pressure – despite overseas aid being critical for poverty alleviation in developing countries and the explicit commitments of the world’s industrialised countries to the Millennium development goals.
1 January 2009
The Threat of Terrorism: The Perspective of a Policy-Maker
Insecurities are a challenge to many societies, especially if they involve risks of creating major losses in human lives, property and welfare. Local or national governments are at least partly responsible for the wellbeing of its inhabitants and are therefore supposed to deal with these insecurities.
Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) Initiative
The Triple-S Initiative aims to catalyse systemic change in rural water policies and practices, to move from an infrastructure-based approach towards service delivery approaches. IDS is providing ongoing external learning and methodology support to the initiative.
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Learning about Qualitative Document AnalysisRe-creating the State: Governance, Civil Society and Trust in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
This project is looking at tax collection, welfare distribution and environmental regulation to find out where transitional states should channel their limited resources in order to implement their policies.
Public Perceptions of International Development in the UK
With the world economy in a major downturn, the stakes for developing countries could not be higher. Public support for international development and aid will play a key role. But is there a domestic consensus on the UK's role in international development and what are its contours?
1 May 2008
Assessing the Impact of the EU-Cariforum EPA
Technical Background Paper for the World Bank LAC Region Trade Report
1 March 2008
Rationalizing or Empowering Bureaucrats? Tax Administration Reform in Post-Communist Poland and Russia
Comparison of the experiences of these two countries suggests that 'empowering' bureaucrats so that the state will be 'strengthened' vis-à-vis society may not provide for as successful an implementation of state policy in the long run as an approach based upon 'rationalizing' the state.
1 January 2008
Water Sector Evolution Scenarios: The Case of Europe
The purpose of this article is to identify possible scenarios for the evolution of the European water supply and sanitation sectors...