Fariba Alamgir
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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...
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Urban inequality and COVID-19 in Latin America
by Eduardo Lépore and Séverine Deneulin In country after country, public health measures of social distancing and isolation have been implemented to contain the contagion of COVID-19. In countries with well developed welfare states, these have been accompanied by social...
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Covid-19 – a catalyst for development?
Edited by James Copestake and Rosie Maslin On 7th April we published the thoughts of a group of scholars on Covid-19 and the Developmental State. We then invited postgraduate students at Bath who are enrolled on development studies and related...
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Covid-19 and the Developmental State
Edited by James Copestake and Fariba Alamgir In a rapidly evolving situation, we asked a group of scholars what light they thought the covid-19 pandemic is throwing on variation in the capability of the state to act in the public interest in...
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A new style of development reporting? Pope Francis’s love letter to the Amazon
by Séverine Deneulin Originally published on Oxfam Poverty to Power platform. On the 12th February, Pope Francis released Querida Amazonia, a poetic love letter to the Amazon region and its peoples, and from them to the whole world. The letter is one outcome...
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Come to your senses! Time to Value Care to make ecological decisions
by Aurelie Charles In the winter of the Northern hemisphere or the summer of the Southern hemisphere, if you open your window together with your senses for five minutes, there is something obvious. Flowers are blossoming in the winter, and...
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Radical help
by James Copestake Is the UK, in 2020, a developing country? If that means one that recognizes its own deep problems and has the capacity to identify and embrace radical solutions to them, then let’s hope so. Hilary Cottam’s book,...
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International Child Protection: In Need of Politics and Participation
By Neil Howard Today is International Children’s Day, when the world’s child protection institutions both remind us that children are the future and urge us to better care for them in the present. But how well are they doing their...
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Attacking the Slogans of Poverty Policy
By Geof Wood It must be helpful that this year’s economics Nobel prize (Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer) has been awarded for tackling poverty. But there also must remain a questionmark over whether experimental methods and RCT can really capture the...
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Tackling menstrual hygiene and taboos in rural Nepal
By Jennifer Thomson, Fran Amery and Melanie Channon Centre for Development Studies members Dr Melanie Channon, Dr Fran Amery and Dr Jennifer Thomson spent a week in Kathmandu, Nepal in late July as part of their GCRF funded project Menstrual...