IDS 50th anniversary conference over two days in July 2016 on ‘States, markets and society in a reconfigured world: Defining a new era for development'.
The inaugural IDS Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Ferguson is titled “Not Working: Rethinking Production and Distribution in the Jobless City”. It examines the issue of contemporary global cities being full of people not in stable, waged employment and suggesting new analytical...
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
The Chinese One Belt One Road (OBOR) project was initiated by President Xi Jinping in March 2015. It aims to connect East Asia and Europe via a Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The ultimate goal is to facilitate trade and investment in Eurasia and promote economic...
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
With opening remarks from Ambassador Shyam Saran, former India Foreign Secretary.
This course is open to a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners, researchers and project managers who are already or will be working in the area of social protection. It aims to provide a platform for strengthening conceptual grounding and for engagement in critical debate about...
This seminar, jointly hosted by IDS and the International Broadcasting Trust will explore these opportunities and challenges from the perspectives of film makers, researchers and NGOs.
Could the Sustainable Development Goals open up a political space to rethink development and promote innovation in the world's poorest countries?
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is the hot topic in HIV prevention at the moment but so far there has been little heard from women on the subject. This twitter chat, hosted by IDS via @IDS_UK and using #PrEPChat seeks to widen the debate.
How do we evaluate the impact of development funds? Is the impact of funders limited to the sum of the projects they fund? Or do they create important externalities?
Join IDS Researcher Naomi Hossain, Gabriela Alcaraz (FEWS NET) and Miguel Robles (IFPRI) for an Oxfam America-hosted panel discussion examining life after the global food price crisis and what is needed to create a resilient global food system.
Based on the realities of a slavery eradication programme in North India Pauline Oosterhoff (IDS) will present the reasons, benefits and challenges in using participatory statistics to assess the impact of interventions to eradicate slavery and bonded labour.
How and what we eat, the journey it’s been through and how much is left is over has a huge impact on the world’s resources. With population growth, climate change, diet-related diseases and huge inequality in the food system, do we need to take a fresh look at what’s on our plate?
