Documents et rapports

Bridging the research divide : studying refugees and development oustees (anglais)

Countries in a post-war situation, and the processes of war-to-peace transition, place the social problems of relocating war refugees and displaced population high on the world's agenda, with increasing...

Understanding and preventing impoverishment from displacement : reflections on the state of knowledge (anglais)

The remarkable progress in social science research on resettlement is defined by the author in terms of a) knowledge acquisition; significant shifts in research trends; and c) development and diversification...

Social integration and population displacement : the contribution of social science (anglais)

The discourse about social integration usually assumes that it is linked to development, and that 'more' development induces higher degrees of social integration and reduces social conflicts. Yet in reality...

The sociological action-research of development-induced population resettlement (anglais)

This article discusses an action-research study of development caused population resettlement. The study, conduct from 1993-1994, covered 192 development projects that entailed the displacement and resettlement...

Culture and organization : the social sustainability of induced development (anglais)

While the intellectual debate concerning the sustainability of induced development is largely limited to the dimensions of economic and environmental sustainability, the author states that the sociocultural...

Re-tooling inapplied social linvestigation for development planning : some methodological issues (anglais)

This paper opened the RAP conference, providing an overview of the major issues for which the conference was convened. Methods and techniques are multiplying, as are their application to a broadening range...

A sociological framework : policy, environment, and the social actors for tree planting (anglais)

Like most other global environmental problems, the world's looming de-forestation crisis will not be slowed, let alone arrested, through technical remedies alone. As defined by the author, the root causes...

Sociologists in a development agency : observations from the World Bank (anglais)

The article was adapted from a presentation on the looks at the question whether the patterns of applied social science work as practiced at the World Bank are replicable at other development institutions...

Nutrition planning is alive and well, thank you (anglais)

Rural credit markets and institutions in developing countries : lessons for policy analysis from practice and modern theory (anglais)

This article presents evidence of the failure of government intervention in rural credit markets of LDCs in the past three decades. It then shows how lessons for policy analysis can be drawn from modern...

Participation in schooling : determinants and learning outcomes in Nepal (anglais)

This paper examines data on the determinants of adult cognitive competencies and of child school participation in the Terai region of Nepal. The results of the analysis are: first generation landholdings...

Intra-industry trade among exporters of manufactured goods (anglais)

This paper examines the determinants of intra-industry specialisation in manufactured goods in bilateral trade among countries whose manufactured exports exceeded $300 million and accounted for at least...

Differences in income and poverty within Brazil (anglais)

Regional disparities in living standards within Brazil have received increasing attention in recent years. This paper indicates that although costs of living adjustments narrow spatial differences, large...

The extent and the cost of protection in developed - developing country trade (anglais)

This paper focuses on the measures of protection applied to trade between developed and developing countries. This choice reflects concern with the adverse repercussions of recently imposed protectionist...

China's economic reforms in a comparative perspective (anglais)

The paper makes recommendations for simultaneously establishing macroeconomic equilibrium and extending the reform effort in China. As to the latter, recommendations are made (a) for increasing the decision-making...

Trade patterns in developing countries, 1964-82 (anglais)

This paper presents a regression analysis of import and export shares of GDP for 14 commodity and service categories in 55 developing countries over the period 1964-82. Explanatory variables include GNP...

The "production" of a social methodology (anglais)

This article presents an analysis of the research process undertaken by the Investment Program for Rural Development in Mexico (PIDER), which made a serious attempt to address the problem of participation...

The planning of education : where do we stand? (anglais)

Educational planning is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of education. It has been practiced, malpracticed, or simply paid lip service in most countries, especially in developing ones, since...

The debt problem and growth (anglais)

Easing the debt problem requires high-debt countries to generate significant trade and savings surpluses. If this has to be achieved quickly these surpluses can only be built up through contractive measures...

Welfare effects of government intervention in education (anglais)

Distortive effects of government intervention, especially in international trade, have received considerable attention. But not much literature exists on similar effects of public policies toward education...