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Bangladesh: The Challenges of Inclusion
By Mathilde Maitrot and Joe Devine Reaching the ripe age of fifty, Bangladesh can look back with pride and look forward with cautious optimism. Since its independence, it has found a way to overcome huge challenges including decades of political...
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China will no longer build overseas coal power plants – what energy projects will it invest in instead?
By Yixian Sun Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced at the UN General Assembly that China “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad”. Chinese banks have already swung into gear. Three days after Xi’s speech, the Bank of China...
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From global summits to economic security via financial inclusion? Reflections on the tenth anniversary of the Maya Declaration
By Jessica Reyes, Juan Carlos Romero Contreras, James Copestake and Max Nino-Zarazua Global summits come and go, but do they make any difference? To answer this question it is useful to reflect back on what they set out to do...
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On unpredictability: a call for solidarity
By Joel Lazarus In the realm of social action, and thus in the realm of development, the element of unpredictability reigns. A critical history of development is a history of the intended and unintended injurious consequences of interventions. The path...
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Can we really grow our way out of the ecological crisis?
By Nick Langridge There is overwhelming consensus that the world is in the midst of an ecological crisis: Greenhouse gas concentrations are at a three-million year high (Willeit et al., 2019), species extinctions are occurring 1000 times faster than before...
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Losing our way, learning how others explain change, and planning a new book…
by James Copestake Much has changed since we published the book Attributing Development Impact, reflecting on lessons learnt conducting QuIP studies up until the end of 2017. There’s been Covid-19, the relentless digitalisation of our lives and climate change drama....
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The Dasgupta Review - Strong words but short-term actions
By Nick Langridge The Dasgupta Review on The Economics of Biodiversity, commissioned by the UK government, was finally released earlier this month. Led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Review claims to provide an “Independent Review on the Economics of...
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Further reflections on shared prosperity…and regress
By Mohd Umair Khan The World Bank recently published the Poverty and Shared Prosperity (SP) report for 2020 (see this CDS blog). In this blog, I reflect further on the adoption of SP as the second core goal for the...
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Reflecting on Reversals of Fortune: poverty and shared prosperity through 2020
By James Copestake For nearly thirty years, starting in 1990, the global incidence of extreme poverty fell almost without interruption in both absolute terms (from nearly two billion to less than one billion), and in relative terms - from more...