Does the pandemic reveal new directions for development studies? This was the focus of discussion at a recent IDS seminar. A new paper in World Development on ‘post-pandemic transformations’ by a group of us at IDS was the starting point. Although the pandemic is far from over, some...
26 February 2021
26 February 2021
26 February 2021
The global focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted attention to vaccines: their availability, roll-out, and take-up. Distribution is complex with this recent IDS article reflecting on the significant inequalities and inequities associated with who actually gets the vaccine,...
25 February 2021
Covid-19 has brought with it a host of changes for development researchers. In many cases, fieldwork has been replaced with remote research methods, ranging from third party data collection to phone interviews and SMS surveys. Whilst remote methods are improving, there are some clear gaps in the...
25 February 2021
There has never been a more important moment to build bridges between social science and humanitarian practice. This principle is the very foundation of SSHAP’s inaugural Fellowship Programme, which will kick off its first round in spring of this year. Our programme aims to link future...
24 February 2021
More than a year after the first confirmed case of Covid-19, and almost eleven months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic, there are few areas of local, regional and global politics, policy and society that have not been impacted by the global health crisis. Peace...
23 February 2021
Over the past twenty years, much work has been dedicated to improving labour standards in cocoa production, with the aim of weeding out child labour. Nevertheless, the latest survey of child labour in cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, comparing data from 2008/09, 2013/14 and 2018/19, shows...
22 February 2021
22 February 2021
Ahead of World Social Justice Day (20 February), IDS researchers Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Ian Scoones and Annie Wilkinson review the lessons from Covid-19 for development practices in a new journal article and why political, economic and social transformations are needed to tackle...
18 February 2021
A nation-wide mass mobilisation of farmers and allied rural community is ongoing in India. This mobilisation started with farmers’ protests in Punjab in September against three farm bills introduced in the parliament to institute agricultural reforms. Despite the protests, the bills were...
17 February 2021
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