This Sussex Development Lecture will be given by Richard Wilkinson, co author of the Spirit Level.

Join Mary Creagh, Shadow Secretary of State for Development and Brighton Pavilion Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Purna Sen for a discussion around the future of international development in 2015 and beyond

The aim of this event is to explore the relationship between development ethics and evaluation values. 

It has been nearly 20 years since the bloody war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but communities are still struggling to achieve economic, political and social stability. This seminar will discuss post-war community formation and underlying social processes in two towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

This 4 day course will guide researchers, academics, tax administrators and other practitioners through the main issues and trends on taxation in developing countries while providing an opportunity for networking, sharing ideas and information on participants' work and future plans in the area of taxation.  

The workshop is part of our collective organisations’ on-going work to raise the policy visibility of the intersection between women’s unpaid care work and their access to decent work. It is a chance to hear from people around the world about their work to make care visible.

In this Discussion Group we aim to engage in an informal non-academic dialogue with researchers working in conflict, and with the IDS academic community in general, to understand better some of the particularities and consequences of the violence and conflict in Mexico.

Seminar with Helen Dancer, visiting fellow at IDS and lecturer in law and anthropology at the University of Brighton, presenting findings from fieldwork she conducted with Emmanuel Sulle in Kilombero District, Tanzania in April 2014.

This Members Seminar will feature presentations on recent empirical work and policy applications by Mara Simane, and Professor Zaneta Ozolina. The two presentations will be followed with comments by Professor Sir Richard Jolly in his capacity as expert on human development and human security, and Gabriele Köhler, former UN Resident Coordinator in Latvia.

Dr. Brian Levy will discuss his most recent book, “Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies” which draws on both innovative scholarship and his quarter century experience at the World Bank to lay out an alternative.