INSIGHTS is published every ninety days as a research reporting service to makers and reformers of development policy, development professionals and other stakeholders. It offers a cross-section of policy-relevant social and economic research findings from UK-based researchers and institutes, organised around topical themes. You can also receive the print edition of Insights by post - for a free subscription please send your postal address to id21.

Coming in Issue #38:
Who runs cities? Urban governance in the new millennium.

Current issues:

June 2001 Issue #37:
Tapping the Market. Can private enterprise supply water to the poor?

Past issues:

March 2001 Issue #36:
Richer or poorer? Achievements and challenges for ethical trade

Special issue - Insights Health March 2001 Issue #1:
Taking poverty to heart: non-communicable diseases and the poor

December 2000 Insights Issue #35
Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development

September 2000 Insights Issue #34
It’s not what you know - it’s who you know! Economic analysis of social capital

June 2000 Insights Issue #33
Add value, go global - Can southern firms break into export markets?

December 1999 Insights Issue #32
Beating the millennium bugs - Balancing policy and research for better health

September 1999 Insights Issue #31
For richer, for fairer - Poverty reduction and income distribution

June 1999 Insights Issue #30
Knowing how to change - Environmental policy learning and transfer

March 1999 Insights Issue #29
Empty desks, empty futures - The curse of classroom gender gaps

November 1998 Insights Issue #28
Private good = public gain? - Has ethical pressure squared the circle?

September 1998 Insights Issue #27
Time for welfare pluralism? - New approaches to social provision

June 1998 Issue #26
Gone with the Flow - Are free capital bonanzas good for development?

March 1998 Issue #25
Net gains or Net dreams?

December 1997 Issue #24
Lomé: from model to misfit but is a better deal on the cards?

September 1997 Issue #23
Reorganising the State towards more inclusive governance

April 1997 Issue #22
Family planning programmes for the next century

INSIGHTS is published by the Institute of Development Studies as part of the ID21 programme, which is supported by the UK Department for International Development.