Complexity and Development Seminar Series
Good management of essential medicines is fundamental to the provision of good quality health care for all. However, management is often poor in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in poor access and inappropriate use, which in turn cause poor patient outcome, adverse events,...
Watch the live-stream video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5OvrX3BFY Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University, NY; Institute of Development Studies, and member of the Progressive Economy Forum Council) is one of the world's leading experts on public...
Members Seminars - Paradigm Change or Old Wine in New Bottles? Debating and Reformulating SDGs – An Experiment In this seminar Professor Haller will draw on his wealth of experience to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals. He will address if the way the SDGs were formulated to...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS Director Melissa Leach speaks to renowned economists and authors Nicholas Stern and Himanshu from LSE, about their book How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics. They discuss how a small village in India to illuminate the drivers...
The Digital and Technology Cluster welcomed Nanjala Nyabola to speak about work and new book. About the speaker Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, humanitarian advocate and political analyst, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her new book, ‘Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics’ offers unique insight...
Lecture Slides The seminar offered: an eyewitness’s account of what had happened in Guangdong province, a neighbouring Chinese province to Hong Kong in the early 1990s. Guangdong succeeded in changing its mode of operation from socialism to capitalism. This presentation proposes to see the...
Complexity and Development Seminar Series
This seminar is part of a series that aims to share cutting edge thinking and research being done at IDS and the University of Sussex around how we practically capture and account for complexity across a variety of sustainable development contexts.
We live in an unprecedented age of urbanisation. Development in cities is critical for the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. More than half of humanity lives in urban areas, the share is growing, and poverty too is urbanising. Cities are places of economic growth and opportunity,...
Evidence into Policy and Practice Series
Researchers, activists, policy professionals, and practitioners across sectors and disciplines are working to tackle global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change through influencing policy and practice at local, national and global levels. Yet toolkits and guidelines for...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- author Hilary Wainwright speaks with IDS Director of Research John Gaventa about her book A New Politics from the Left. Hilary argues that a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism requires a new politics for the left that comes from the...
From late 2016 to early 2018, researchers from the IDS Participation, Inclusion and Social Change team worked with five partners in (Egypt, Ghana, India, South Africa and Uganda) carrying out participatory research to understand how intersecting inequalities are shaping the daily lives of...
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? Watch video below https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/275815646411792/ The welfare state in the UK was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of...