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North Korea: How Much Reform and Whose Characteristics?
Brookings Institution, 1997This paper is the first of a three part project on economic reform on the Korean Peninsula. In this first paper, the focus is on the question which has been subject to considerable recent debate, namely whether collapse of North Korea is imminent.DocumentEnvironmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: UNEP 1997 Interim Summary
Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project, SEDAC, 1999This summary is the last one between the full assessments of 1994 and 1998 on environmental effects of ozone depletion. The aim is to keep the Parties to the Montreal Protocol informed about new scientific developments. Recent studies have confirmed many of the conclusions of the earlier assessments. In addition, several new findings have been reported.DocumentWomen's Work and the Household in Latin America. A discussion of the literature
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999The paper discusses the existing literature on women's work and the household in Latin America. This should be seen in the context of women increasingly entering the labour market in Latin America - as increasing interest among academics for exploring the complexities of the household. One can distinguish between three 'angles' taken by the studies.DocumentThe green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.DocumentThe determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.DocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.DocumentOf saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.DocumentGuatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.DocumentGender sensitivity of well-being indicators
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of well-being in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential.