25 February 2020
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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
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14 February 2020
Opinion
Citizens’ participation in economic governance: evidence from Ghana
Fiscal indiscipline, particularly in election years, has been a recurring annoyance in Ghana. The country unfortunately failed to recover from the wastefulness of the 2012 election year, making a 16th bailout from the IMF inevitable in 2015. The country’s previous bailouts lacked buy-in from...
13 February 2020
Opinion
Notes from the field: the village and the rainmaker troubled by climate change
During our fieldwork in Uganda for the Pandemic Preparedness project, nowhere else have we found a stronger belief in diviners, rainmakers, and sorcery than among the agrarian communities in Kasese district. Among the Bakonzo people the combination of their strong belief in rainmakers and...
12 February 2020
Opinion
Gender dynamics in labour markets in South Asia and Middle East and North Africa
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported on global trends in women’s employment in 2004: ‘One of the most striking phenomena of recent times has been the increasing proportion of women in the labour force, enabling women in many regions to use their potential in the labour...
11 February 2020
Opinion
Strengthening gender mainstreaming in disability inclusive programmes
In January 2020, a gender and disability workshop was held at IDS as part of the Inclusion Works and Disability Inclusive Development programmes. The aim was to strengthen the inclusion of gender mainstreaming within the disability programmes through raising awareness of gender concepts and...
7 February 2020