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Deprivation, Discrimination and Delivery: Competing Explanations for Child Labour and Educational Failure in South Asia
Published by: IDS
The high incidence of both child labour and out-of-school children in the South Asian region has given rise to competing explanations. Broadly speaking, these can be categorised as those which focus on poverty and under-development and those which focus on policy failure and poor implementation of educational services.
Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women: A Closer Look at Bangladesh
Published by: IDS
This paper builds on previous work on Bangladesh that set out the principles of a gendered computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach by accounting for household work and leisure in addition to standard market sectors.
Urban Food: The Role of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in India: A Case Study of Delhi
Published by: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Civil Society and Governance – A Research Study in India
The potential of civil society in affecting the state and citizens’ lives is beginning to be recognised all over the state; at the same time it is also being increasing realised that governance is not the sole responsibility of the government.
Media South Asia
Aims and ObjectivesThis project represents Stage 2 of the Media South Asia initiative that produced a documentary film and book on the...
State Responsiveness to Poverty
This study examined pro-poor development initiatives in two Indian states that had, in the 1990s, been considered to have been responsive to poverty: Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Each state had a chief executive who, supported by a core group of political leaders and civil servants, devised and maintained a commitment to programmes and institutional reforms aimed at addressing the needs of poorer constituencies.
South Asia’s Export Structure in a Comparative Perspective
Published by: IDS
World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia's export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia's exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures.
Grassroots Anti-Corruption Initiatives in India
How can poor people fight corruption? Contemporary ‘good governance’ policies of development agencies stress the relationship between an open official information regime – particularly transparency in official development expenditure accounts – and government accountability.