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    Working at home: developmentally unsound practice?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Home-based enterprises (HBEs) are unpopular with many policymakers and development theorists. Are their objections justified? Does the presence of HBEs hinder upgrading of residential environments? Are those who work at home exploited victims doing outwork for large manufacturers?
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    No hiding place for information-hoarders: tackling the accountability deficit

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can citizens help shape policies and hold politicians and civil servants to account? How can opportunities for citizen participation be institutionalised? Which public sector responsiveness initiatives undertaken in recent years are replicable? How should donors respond to recalcitrant states refusing to reform accountability relationships with service users?
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    Rural India: forever a hostile environment for the disabled?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In India few government or donor funded projects bother to try to include the disabled. What can be done to give India’s 90 million disabled people a chance to participate in mainstream development programmes? Could a livelihoods approach help undermine the entrenched prejudice that disabled people are an unproductive burden on others?
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    Privileging the partnership: can joint forest management succeed?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The depleted forests of West Bengal for decades were the site of conflict between local communities and the Forest Department. The Joint Forest Management (JFM) initiative was able to resolve this stand-off through innovative grassroots solutions developed by front-line workers and the community. Although formalised as policy in the late 1980s, how can JFM survive into the next century?
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    Death of land reform? New issues, new coalitions, venerable objectives

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is generally accepted that in rural societies the surest way to poverty reduction is through reforming the property system. What political conditions are required for democratic states to tackle poverty through land reform? Can conventional agrarian reform theory learn from the biological revolution and incorporate the energies of new social movements?
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    Making a difference? Getting serious about gender and participatory development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The rhetoric of participation and gender awareness has entered the development mainstream. Has this led to more equitable development initiatives? What are the consequences of the frequently found slippage between ‘involving women’ and ‘addressing gender’? And how can those using participatory approaches address issues of gender difference more effectively?
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    Building trust between vulnerable people and the corporate world

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Corporations (both local and international) investing in developing countries affect millions of poor and vulnerable people. How can corporations learn more about the political, historical, social and cultural environment in which they operate? Can they engage in dialogue with vulnerable people and become partners in, and not obstacles to, sustainable development?
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    Show me the money: new approaches to accountability

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can poor people fight corruption? To do so demands resources that socially marginalised groups often simply do not have: organisational strength to stand up to local elites, access to official information, technical skills to analyse accounts, and legal resources to prosecute violations.
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    Putting politics into sustainable livelihoods analysis: development and democracy in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The conventional sustainable livelihoods (SL) framework focuses on the effect of the external institutional environment on people pursuing livelihood options. Have SL practitioners left out politics and power? Could a study of natural resource management in an Indian village help fine-tune SL analysis by showing the importance of understanding the asset of political capital?
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    Candid camera: putting men in the picture?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In South Asia, initiatives addressing issues of violence against women have largely focused on women's empowerment. But where do men fit in? Can the use of film put men into the picture?

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