28 February 2020
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The Poverty Stoplight: learning from a promising new participatory methodology
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Martin Burt during the launch of his book Who Owns Poverty at IDS. The book describes a new social innovation tool ‘the Poverty Stoplight’, developed by Martin and Fundacion Paraguaya, which has fast been gaining traction among the development...
28 February 2020
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25 February 2020
Opinion
Let future generations speak
One hundred years ago, the economist Arthur Cecil Pigou pointed out that “our telescopic faculty is defective, and …we, therefore, see future pleasures, as it were, on a diminished scale”; as Al Gore wrote, “The future whispers while the present shouts”. Before climate change...
24 February 2020
21 February 2020
Opinion
Unfolding the history of international development
“History is necessary to understand the present, to speak truth to power, and to fuel hope – no matter how controversial and many times put under scrutiny – that, despite historical turnarounds, some form of progress exists, or will in the future, and that it is possible to be in a better...
19 February 2020
Opinion
Rethinking Empowerment and Accountability in ‘Difficult Settings’
Over the last two decades, development has been replete with theories and interventions focusing on ‘empowerment and accountability’, and how these could contribute to a range of outcomes, be they good governance, social inclusion, and social justice. Much of the early thinking on these...
18 February 2020
18 February 2020
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