"If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central...

The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as...

The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralisation in the provision of public services in India. The second is to test the hypothesis that decentralisation in the system of public service delivery in primary health care and education led to...

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

Critically engages the resource use nexus. Clearly, a nexus-approach to resource policy, planning and practice is essential if sustainable development goals are to be met. In particular, in an era of climate change, an integrated approach to water, energy and agriculture is imperative....

A historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization. This exploitation has not gone unchallenged, however....

Abstract: Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit hat sich in den zurückliegenden Jahren konzeptionell und strukturell tiefgreifend verändert. Probleme wie Klimawandel, grenzüberschreitende Migrationsströme, Terrorismus und zerfallenden Staaten erfordern neue Strategien, Formen und...