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1995: Volume 26

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

Volume 26 Number 3 July 1995 Edited by: Anne Marie Goetz

This Bulletin considers problems in institutionalising gender-sensitive development policy by exploring new gendered perspectives on the structure and functioning of development organisations, as well as strategies to improve their accountability to women. The institutional context for these questions is the developing state and its bureaucracies, and NGOs. The role of women's political mobilisation in improving the accountability of public institutions to women, and the relationship between development institutions and their female constituencies is also explored.

Fifty Years On: The UN and Economic and Social Development

Volume 26 Number 4 October 1995 Edited by: H. W. Singer and Richard Jolly

Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, this Bulletin assesses the present and future role of the UN system in such areas as global governance, development thinking, relations with the Bretton Woods institutions, food security, environment and other matters. The contributors all write from direct experience of UN work.

1996: Volume 27

Poverty, Policy and Aid

Volume 27 Number 1 January 1996 Edited by: Bob Baulch

The World Bank's new strategy for poverty reduction was launched in the World Development Report of 1990. This issue of the Bulletin re-examines the Bank's new poverty agenda focusing on three key issues: the meaning and measurement of poverty, the interaction of poverty and domestic policy, and aid and poverty reduction.

Liberalization and the New Corruption?

Volume 27 Number 2 May 1996 Edited by: Barbara Harriss-White and Gordon White

While there is a widely-accepted thesis that economic liberalization and/or political democratization can reduce levels of corruption in developing societies, recent experience suggests that the relationship is variable and in some contexts corruption may increase in consequence. The contributors to this Bulletin examine the relationship between corruption and economic/political liberalization across a wide range of countries and draw implications for designing feasible anti-corruption measures as part of the wider agenda of improving the quality of governance.

War and Rural Development in Africa

Volume 27 Number 3 July 1996 Edited by: Jeremy Swift

Rural development thinking can no longer claim that conflict falls outside its mandate, according to this edition of the IDS Bulletin. The nature of warfare in Africa is changing dramatically. War is being used as an instrument of policy, and becoming a way of life in the worst affected areas, with civilians, not combatants, the most vulnerable. The Bulletin explores new thinking on some of the critical issues that need to be addressed by development policy makers in order to adjust to these new realities. It argues that planners and researchers need to understand the causes and conduct of war, learn new skills, and develop new alliances - including, in some circumstances, with the military.