Sustainable development
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SDGs failing to have meaningful impact, research warns
By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun Sustainability has never been higher on the international agenda. But an international assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the 17 global goals used by governments, companies, and NGOs worldwide...
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A View from Dublin: Some random reflections
By Tony German A few hundred yards from the flat, where we’ve been living in Dublin for the last 6 months, is the famine memorial. It helps explain why experience of famine, migration, colonisation and conflict are important parts...
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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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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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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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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...
