Vaccine production is now at the heart of the debate on development. This paper argues that, as well as economic policies to address market failures, development policies aimed at fostering vaccine innovation should also consider the institutional and organisational uncertainties. The...

This paper argues that government and related institutional approaches to increasing agricultural output and improving rural livelihoods in Honduras in the 1980s were limited in their abilities to reduce the vulnerability<NOTE ID="note1"><P>The concept of vulnerability refers to the inabilities of many maize...</p></note>

This paper examines the concept of ‘communities of practice’ for promoting joint learning and knowledge production for international development. How and why communities of practice may or may not lead to socially inclusive and innovative outcomes in the context of international...

This paper argues that the development of targeted health technologies for poor people will require a new mix of technology, organizations and institutions which we conceptualize as new social technologies. Using a technology-market matrix, we explore these new social technologies which may...

The past two decades have been characterized by an increasing uncoupling of economic growth and social and economic development. Outside of China, the numbers living in absolute poverty have remained stubbornly large; in Africa, they have increased substantially. Although this uncoupling has...

Les coopératives offrent une alternative pour l’amélioration des moyens de subsistance des individus. Cependant, leur bilan reste mitigé et ce surtout en Afrique. Initialement contrôlées par l’État, de nombreuses coopératives n’ont pas survécu à l’avènement des politiques...