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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...
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DSA statement on the proposed UK aid cut
Professor James Copestake, Director of the Centre for Development Studies, has joined other leading research institutions in co-signing a letter from the Development Studies Association (DSA) to the UK government. The full statement reads: The UK government’s decision to reduce...
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A Woman’s Place is In Politics – The Case For Ghana’s First Female Vice President
Gender and Politics: The Road to Women Empowerment The road to Women Empowerment has been a long and arduous journey. Currently, the agenda to increase women’s participation in political leadership is receiving universal support through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)...
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Child workers need rights, not policing, to weather the pandemic
By Roy Maconachie, Sam Okyere and Neil Howard The development community wants to help child workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, but unless it rethinks its programming it could cause harm itself. Today is the World Day Against Child...
