Institute of Development Studies
IDS News - April 2009
Can the EU get its act together on climate finance for development cooperation?
Published: 30 Apr 2009
The three main challenges that Europe faces on climate adaptation financing.
Dead Aid a review
Published: 27 Apr 2009
Dambisa Moyo’s book is a readable and provocative call to action, but oversimplifies the issues and ignores the fact that in some contexts aid can be useful – and sometimes even necessary.
Swine Flu: Governing Global Health in an Age of Epidemics
Published: 27 Apr 2009
As flu experts attempt to make sense of the emerging information about swine flu, the response from the top is unequivocally hard-hitting. But will an ‘active, aggressive, and coordinated response’ work?
Putting Farmers First to Transform Agriculture
Published: 24 Apr 2009
A new book entitled 'Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research and Development' emphasises the importance of putting farmers at the centre of agricultural innovation and development.
Ecology and Infectious Disease Dynamics - from the Forests of Sierra Leone
Published: 23 Apr 2009
IDS Fellow, Melissa Leach, reflects on her recent visit to Sierra Leone where she explored collaboration opportunities for much needed research on the political and cultural ecology of infectious disease dynamics.
Amplifying Women and Children’s Voices in Climate Talks
Published: 21 Apr 2009
How can participatory video support marginalised groups in their efforts to adapt to a changing climate?
Improving impact planning and learning in agricultural programmes
Published: 17 Apr 2009
A new agricultural learning network
Can someone tell me how babies are made?
Published: 8 Apr 2009
Kate Hawkins is struck by the increasing conservatism of maternal health advocates and policy makers. Forget ‘sexing up’ the issue – to make maternal health politically palatable it seems that pregnancy is increasingly being divorced from its root cause.
The New DFID White Paper and a New Deal for Food and Agriculture
Published: 8 Apr 2009
As the UK Department for International Development is about to release a new White Paper on poverty reduction, IDS presses for food and agriculture to be front and centre.
Alison Evans (DP96) new Director of ODI
Published: 7 Apr 2009Alison Evans, IDS alumni (DPhil96), is to be the new Director at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Alison takes over the post from Simon Maxwell on 1 May 2009.
Fairtrade Director and alumni in the news
Published: 7 Apr 2009
Last year, sales of Fairtrade goods rose to record levels. As a result, the lives of millions of farmers in developing countries have been improved. And much of the credit is due to Harriet Lamb (MP9), the guiding light behind an extraordinary success story.
Bangladesh Alumni Reunion 2009
Published: 7 Apr 2009Alumni Reunion Bangladesh, 9 March 2009 Mamunur Rahman (MA20), hosted a reunion in Dhaka.
Will the G20 face up to the changing global balance of power?
Published: 3 Apr 2009
Professor John Humphrey: The divisions among the old powers should not distract attention from the need to take seriously the agendas of the new.
Why the G20 meeting marks an historic occasion – or ought to!
Published: 3 Apr 2009
Professor Sir Richard Jolly: The time is ripe to explore new approaches, in actions and in research about possible actions. Hopefully, the optimists at the G20 and those on the ‘outside’ will press for serious action – realising that it will take much more than a single meeting.
The Washington Consensus is Dead, Long Live the Washington Consensus?
Published: 3 Apr 2009
Lawrence Haddad: The G20 consensus is new in terms of its scale and coordination but the focus on trade, aid, loans, the IMF etc. makes it sound too much like a deal for the twentieth century.
Crisis without borders
Published: 3 Apr 2009
Dr Anna Schmidt: The global financial crisis has accelerated a shift away from the G7/8. Is expanding representation at global summits a first step to reform of international economic institution or a smoke-screen for public consumption?
Reflections on the G20 Summit
Published: 3 Apr 2009
IDS members explore the summit's legitimacy and potential to effect change.
Alternative Ideas from China
Published: 1 Apr 2009
IDS is working with partners around the world to organise a series of roundtables exploring what social innovation means in the Twenty first Century. The most recent was held at Beijing Normal University, China.
