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Engendering Adjustment or Adjusting Gender? Some New Approaches to Women and Development in Africa

Published by: IDS

Providing for the Rural Poor: Institutional Decay and Transformation in Uganda

Published by: IDS

After 1971 state-dominated rural services collapsed in Uganda. This study sets out the reasons for that collapse and the recent transformation of service provision under the National Resistance Movement government, and evaluates the performance of local government, the private sector, cooperatives and voluntary agencies over the past six years.

On the Political Economy of the Choice of a Trade Regime

Dealing with Displacement: Refugee-Host Relations, Food and Forest Resources in Sierra Leonean Mende Communities During the Liberian Influx, 1990-91

Published by: IDS

This Report is based on research carried out in the Gola forest area of Sierra Leone in March and April 1991, where Mende communities received large numbers of refugees from the Liberian civil war. It documents refugee-host relations during the year prior to this time.

From Fertility Reduction to Reproductive Choice: Gender Perspectives on Family Planning

Published by: IDS

Gender and Primary Health Care: Some Forward Looking Strategies

Published by: IDS

While health has always been seen as an integral aspect of development planning, the significance attached to it has varied according to the debates about development in the wider sense.

Making a Difference: NGOs and Development in a Changing World

Robert Chambers, Mick Howes and Mark Robinson are among the authors of 20 essays which draw on both Northern and Southern NGO experience to review the strengths, weaknesses, problems and opportunities presented by these and other options, illustrated with case studies.

Institutional Development and NGOs in Africa: Policy Perspectives for European Development Agencies

Provides an overview of NGO institutional development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa.

Hi-Tech for Industrial Development: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience in Electronics and Automation

Published by: Routledge

This book is about the role of government in the hi-tech modernization of developing countries. Should such countries concentrate on using the new technology or should they also produce it?

All is Quiet

Published by: VPRO

This fiction film examines the trajectory of a woman in a suburb who decides to kill her husband.