Recent Submissions

  • Has Universal Development Come of Age? 

    Longhurst, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Development policy, practice and research have largely adhered to a North–South, geographic and aid-driven view of the world. Over the last ten years the approaches of South–South cooperation have also come to prominence. ...
  • Introduction: Universal Development – Research and Practice 

    Longhurst, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Development policy, practice and research have largely adhered to a North–South, geographic and aid-driven view of the world. Over the last ten years the approaches of South–South cooperation have also come to prominence. ...
  • Editorial: Britain: A Case for Development? 

    Jolly, Richard; Luckham, Robin (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    For the past four years the major industrial OECD countries have been in the throes of a crisis brought to a head by the oil price rises of 1973-74, but arising from longer-run difficulties which had already begun to appear ...
  • Back to the Ivory Tower? The Professionalisation of Development Studies and their Extension to Europe 

    Seers, Dudley (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    The convention is that development studies cover only the 'developing' countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, a sort of academic counterpart of OXFAM. But this convention is ceasing to be viable for European social ...
  • Redistribution with Sloth – Britain’s Problem? 

    Jolly, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Many if not most economic analyses of Britain's economic difficulties suggest that slow growth is at the heart of the problem-and an acceleration of growth the obvious cure. Past experience in Britain and in the Third World ...
  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South 

    de Haan, Arjan; Maxwell, Simon (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    This IDS Bulletin is an oddity: a publication by an institute specialising in developing countries, which consists almost entirely of papers about developed countries. There is a justification, however. It lies in the ...
  • Comparisons, Convergence and Connections 

    Maxwell, Simon (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    My mission is to explore the issues of poverty and social exclusion across the boundary between developed and developing countries. Put briskly, the thesis is that increasing attention to poverty and social exclusion ...
  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South 

    Gaventa, John (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature in development in the 1990s, and is central to the evolving discussion on social exclusion. While during the 1970s and 1980s, ...
  • Introduction: New Democratic Spaces? The Politics and Dynamics of Institutionalised Participation 

    Cornwall, Andrea (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Across the world, as new democratic experiments meet withand transformolder forms of governance, political space for public engagement in governance appears to be widening. A renewed concern with rights, power and difference ...
  • Power, Participation and Political Renewal: Issues from a Study of Public Participation in Two English Cities 

    Barnes, Marian; Sullivan, Helen; Knops, Andrew; Newman, Janet (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Contemporary interest in citizen engagement in public policy stems from a concern with the governance and quality of public service delivery, with improving the legitimacy of decision making and witharticulating the claims ...
  • Development Research: Globalised, Connected and Accountable 

    Haddad, Lawrence (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-25)
    Does development research need reinventing? If it does, why now and in what ways does it need to be changed? These are the questions addressed by the articles in this issue of the IDS Bulletin, many of which were presented ...
  • Keynes, Seers and Economic Development 

    Singer, Hans (Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09-01)
    There is no need to repeat here what was said at the time of Dudley Seers' death about the great loss of a friend and source of inspiration. Now the time has come to take a little distance and try to appraise his contribution ...