The rising prominence of South–South and triangular trade and investments has generated interest as a pathway to sustainable economic development. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/477476333184881/ Bringing together diverse experiences, this exciting panel of academic researchers,...
Between the Lines podcast series
In recent years, climate change and the environment has shot up the agenda in political and public discourse, and a new type of politics has taken shape, with many people calling for urgent, radical change. In this month’s Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach, Professor Ian Scoones...
The Gambia, once viewed as an improbable nation, suffering the fate of many other African countries bedevilled with coups and dictatorial regimes, has gone on to prove itself not only as a viable state, but also as a beacon of democracy in...
IDS hosted a seminar to celebrate International Day of Disabled People and growing interest in disability at IDS, University of Sussex and beyond. Our speakers were: Lorraine Wapling (UCL and DFID) discussed the impact of disability disaggregated data on programme decision-making Maria...
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In this month’s episode of Between the Lines, we discuss a new book that helps us to better understand how power works. Power, Empowerment and Social Change uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be transformed through collective action and social...
This Sussex Development Lecture will argue that future generations are not being given the weight they should have in current decisions and discuss reforms that would help to change this. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/480993875877232/ It will discuss what justice across...
Ahead of the UK general election on 12 December, the University of Sussex, the Sussex Students' Union and IDS are hosting a Question Time-style debate involving a selection of candidates who are standing for election in Brighton & Hove. The following are due to speak at the event: Beatrice...
Religious Inequalities in Development
How far can humanitarian and aid organisations balance their principles of neutrality and do no harm with the reality on the ground, when people face discrimination, marginalisation precisely because they belong a specific religious group or hold a particular set of beliefs? Could an increased...
Reflecting on the Sussex Development Lecture series theme of “the politics of hope”, this presentation will unpack the various uses of optimism in projects of global development. Focusing on the silencing and erasures of matters of racism in the field of education and international...
Older people are often forgotten or overlooked in the ‘money and savings’ conversation. Yet they are the most vulnerable to poverty. By bringing together diverse research, evidence and experience as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in an exciting panel discussion,...
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Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the last few decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Two-thirds of children in sub-Saharan Africa face all manners of hardship. These include poor living conditions, low educational outcomes,...
Political polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world—from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, and Kenya, to Poland, Turkey, and the United States. Drawing on his new co-edited volume (with Andrew O’Donohue), Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political...