abstract:The Institute of Development Studies is an international development research institute. IDS acts to influence policy makers through research, by working with partner organisations in developing countries, and communicating with international policy makers.
As Andy Sumner of the InstituteofDevelopmentStudies at Sussex University has argued, the West's aid business has grown up in poor, stable places, such as Tanzania.
Of the various papers that have been written the one with the best overview of this part of the argument is the one from the InstituteofDevelopmentStudies.