Volume 9 Number 3 July 1978 Edited by: Leslie Palmer and Mike Shepperdson
The contrasting cities of Bath and Swansea are alike in that each has a Centre for Development Studies within their respective universities. However, it is hoped that readers of the IDS Bulletin will gain some idea of the direction and scope of Development Studies at Swansea and Bath, and that an exchange of views can be generated.
Volume 9 Number 4 October 1978 Edited by: Alan Rew
That people caught up in the development process have 'basic needs' and that these have not been met should have come as no surprise. The fact that in the last two years or so it has is in one view almost incredible. With the new concern for basic needs strategies are we admitting that development institutions simply forgot that people had basic needs? And are we now to applaud their rediscovery when to anyone else the need to satisfy them was self evident?
Volume 10 Number 1 January 1979 Edited by: Andrew Coulson
This issue of the IDS Bulletin has been produced by the Project Planning Centre for Developing Countries of the University of Bradford, England, whose main work since 1970 has been to run courses in project appraisal for nationals from the Third World. The contents reflect the Centre's concern not only with the techniques of project appraisal but also with the social and political issues raised by using them.
Volume 10 Number 2 May 1979 Edited by: Robert Chambers
Rural people in third world countries, and especially the poorer rural people, are losers in many ways. Whatever vocabulary is in fashion whether one talks of dependence, deprivation, domination, exclusion, exploitation, impoverishment, marginalisation, powerlessness or subordination part of the reality to be captured is weakness. This weakness is often seen in terms of lack of political organisation, poor access to resources, employment and services, and impotence in the face of class and urban interests and of the machinery of the state.
Volume 10 Number 3 July 1979 Edited by: Kate Young
This issue of the Bulletin is entirely devoted to a report on IDS Conference 133: The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process, and to some of the papers given at that Conference, which was held at the Institute of Development Studies from 17-22 September, 1978.
One of the objectives of the conference was to allow the theoretical concepts developed by the IDS Subordination of Women Workshop (SOW) to be critically evaluated by people working in the same field, as well as to provide a forum at which Third World women's own work could be discussed.
Since the subject of women and development covers such a wide range of issues, it was decided early on to limit our discussions to four main topics: the role of women in production and the changes in these roles; the role of women in reproduction (both biological and social) and the changes noted in these roles; the activities of women to further their own development; and the effects of socialist development policies on women's emancipation. Each participant was asked to prepare a paper on an aspect of one of these broad topics. In all some 67 papers were offered and discussed in three plenary and 18 workshop sessions.