Implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

Practical Action South Asia has been initiating research and advocating policy from a pro poor perspective on attempts to reform the electricity and water sectors, as well as in studying the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements with specific focus on General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS...

Good Governance and Provision of Affordable Housing in DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Danang Widoyoko

M Sohail

The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, sanitation, drainage, the provision of access roads and paving, transport, solid waste management, street...

Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa

John McPeak, Peter Little

An in-depth, evidence-based investigation of livestock marketing in Eastern Africa which approaches the issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, economics, geography, and rangeland ecology. Editors John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little present current findings on ho...

Policy Entrepreneurship for Poverty Reduction

Julius Court, Simon Maxwell

International development is characterized by a concern for praxis, the union of theory and practice. But bridging research and policy is harder than it looks. This book focuses on two key questions: What factors affect the influence research has on policy and practice in international development?...

Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation

Lance Taylor

This hard-hitting research report presents a rigorous critique of the most widely used trade models based on computable general equilibrium (or CGE) models. The authors present concise analytical arguments explaining the fundamental weaknesses of typical CGE models. They show that these models tend...

Aiding Peace?

Jonathan Goodhand

While NGOs’ role in advocacy and agendasetting is fairly widely accepted, their peacebuilding activities are more controversial and have come under increasing scrutiny—not least from the NGOs themselves. As the number of NGOs, and their role in conflict situations, has grown exponentially, they have...

Communities, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources

Stephen Tyler

This book presents cases from some of the poorest parts of Asia to illustrate how local innovations in participatory natural resource management can strengthen livelihoods, build capacity for local governance, and spark policy change. The book synthesizes results from a seven-year programme of appli...

Contested Space

Alison Brown

The importance of public space in supporting city economies and in contributing to poverty reduction is rarely recognized. Instead, public space is more often an arena for contest – between municipal governments or other vested interests, and street traders, whose activities are proscribed by restri...

Just One Planet

Mark Smith

The impacts of climate change are being felt all around the world and as they become more damaging and widespread, it is the 2.7 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day who will be hit first and hardest. The carbon emissions fuelling the lifestyles of people in the North are causi...

A Networked Research Approach

Kate Czuczman

Despite the rhetoric of bottom-up development, the international development agenda remains dominated by the economic interests and institutional priorities of the North, and supported by knowledge generated through Northern Universities, resource centres and think tanks. One means of addressing thi...