Institute of Development Studies
IDS News - April 2010
CSP Newsletter April Issue 12 Conflict and Social Protection
Published: 29 Apr 2010
There is growing interest in the role social protection can play in counteracting areas of conflict and fragility. This edition examines ways in which social protection can contribute to the strengthening of livelihoods and well-being including the promotion of peace in contexts of conflict and instability.
Finding Pathways in a Complex World
Published: 28 Apr 2010
In advance of its biggest ever conference this September, the ESRC STEPS Centre has issued a call for papers and other forms of participation, with a deadline of 31 May 2010.
An Upside Down View of Governance
Published: 28 Apr 2010
Newly published research from the Centre for the Future State based at IDS suggests that donors need to be more open minded about the challenges posed by fragile states.
Taking Dynamics Seriously: Towards a New Politics of Sustainability
Published: 26 Apr 2010
Dynamic Sustainabilities - Technology, Environment, Social Justice, a new book published by the STEPS Centre, sets out a novel guide to thinking and action on sustainability – a ‘pathways approach.’
Formalisation of an Informal Economy?
Published: 23 Apr 2010
IDS Research Fellow Neil McCulloch feeds back on the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) conference on ‘How Business Environment Reform can Promote Formalisation – Learning from our Experiences’.
What will the UK election mean for international development?
Published: 23 Apr 2010
IDS Director Lawrence Haddad analyses the UK election race from a development perspective.
Responding to Pandemic Threats
Published: 19 Apr 2010
As delegates gather for the International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam, a new STEPS Centre book lays out the lessons from the international avian influenza response.
IDS takes on the 10:10 Challenge
Published: 19 Apr 2010
IDS has signed up to 10:10 – the national campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10 per cent in 2010.
Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?
Published: 13 Apr 2010
How can the different approaches to cash transfers, as a social protection mechanism, be explained, and what evidence exists on their relative effectiveness?
Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development
Published: 9 Apr 2010
Making agriculture research systems more effective in responding to poor farmers and their needs so as to reduce of poverty and hunger
Alumni meet up in Dhaka in March
Published: 8 Apr 2010IDS Alumni in Bangladesh held a get together on March 21, 2010. It was attended by Mahmudul Alam (DP82), Saidur Rahman Molla MAG07, Miki Yamamata (MA20), Hilary Standing and Mamunur Rahman MA20.
Understanding power for social change
Published: 7 Apr 2010
A new online resource guide, powercube.net, offers both practical methods and conceptual groundings for engaging with power.
The Big Question for Development, IDS Podcast April 2010
Published: 1 Apr 2010
As the IMF prepares to publish their consultation report the IDS podcast asks Stephany Griffith-Jones for her opinion on financial transaction taxes and Neil McCulloch about his alternative 'Panic Tax'.
