Volume 42. Issue 5
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Introduction: Time to Reimagine Development?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )The major global crises of the past four years – financial, fuel, food, climate – have collectively had a dramatic impact on people's lives and livelihoods. Have they also had a large impact on core ideas underlying ... -
Development Professionals: Reconciling Personal Values with Professional Values
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article is the result of conversations among a group of development professionals associated with the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Sri Lanka, around questions of the values with which we conduct our work and ... -
Better Social Welfare, Ukraine
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )To a large extent, the recent global economic?financial crisis has not affected how the social welfare system in Ukraine provides assistance. While Ukraine did contribute more funds to help meet the greater demands for ... -
Experiences and Reimaginings of Development from a Kutchi Village
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article asks how the global financial crisis (GFC) affected rural communities in western India that have always lived with crises. A visit to Kutch, a border district in Gujarat, revisited after seven years, revealed ... -
Transforming a Country? A Debate on Reimaginations of Development, Change and Crisis in Ethiopia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Ethiopia is undoubtedly making enormous development progress, particularly in terms of infrastructure, education and improved livelihoods. Yet there is growing disagreement on what constitutes good or appropriate development ... -
Reimagining Development through the Crisis Watch Initiative
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article reflects on the experience of the Crisis Watch initiative. This established a network of organisations and individuals who were involved in monitoring and acting on the ongoing effects of the 2008 financial ... -
Reimagining Development with Indigenous People: Reflections from the São Gabriel da Cachoeira Workshop
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Across the world, development is either failing or threatening indigenous peoples. The Brazil Reimagining Development event was held in the small Amazonian town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, an important centre of indigenous ... -
A Methodological Strategy for Reimagining Development: Enabling Complex Systemic Patterns to Surface through Multiple Voices
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )The Reimagining Development initiative pursued a methodological strategy that viewed emerging development issues through multiple perspectives; juxtaposed different sets of issues; tested the resonance of narratives across ... -
From Reimagining to Repositioning Accountability
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article contributes to reimagining a ‘new generation’ of accountability. It draws on country studies and a workshop organised by ActionAid International. The studies highlight the need for further clarifying roles ... -
100 Voices: Southern NGO Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Debates are beginning to evolve on what might form the next generation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The post?2015 debate stands to be a ‘lightning rod’ for fundamental questions of what development is about, and ... -
Tackling Instability in Financial Markets with a Panic Tax
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )The motivation for much recent debate on introducing a financial transaction or ‘Tobin’ Tax is to generate revenues for public goods – this is the main aim of the ‘Robin Hood Tax’ campaign. But James Tobin first proposed ... -
Reimagining 21st Century Development in Malawi: Generating and Sharing Knowledge Beyond the Traditional Development Establishment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Policymaking on development in Malawi has long taken place in a heavily government, NGO and donor?run system. Policymakers are invariably informed by the usual types of evidence from established sources, which reinforce ... -
Reimagining Participation: Opportunities and Challenges of the Open Source Model of Collaboration for Development Thinking and Practice
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Science and technology have a controversial record in alleviating poverty, especially in the context of developing countries. The technology push model – the idea that technological solutions can be transferred without ... -
Using the Financial Crisis to Reimagine the Private Sector
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article uses a workshop, organised by the think tank, Tomorrow's Company, to explore attempts to reimagine the role of business in development. In trying to envisage new ways of working between businesses and INGOs, ... -
Reimagining Aid for the Next Ten Years: What do Donors Think?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article reports on a workshop facilitated by IDS for representatives of six European development donor agencies. The aim was to create some space for reflection on how aid agencies will need to adapt to, and influence, ... -
How can the Financial Sector Better Serve People and the Planet? The Need to Reimagine Finance
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This article analyses two events in 2010, which attempted to reimagine the role of the financial sector in promoting international development. Several strategies for reimagining are identified and described, and mutually ... -
Grassroots Women Organising for Resilient Communities around the World
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Grassroots women's organisations have, in their communities, long been organising livelihoods, assets, community space and agricultural knowledge. Their work demonstrates an ‘imagining’ of development different from ... -
Beyond Silos: Complex Global Shocks and the New Challenges for Civil Society
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Events since 2008 have crystallised a view that global economic shocks are more likely, more complex and more contagious than in the past. Public sector spending (including aid) has been shrinking since the economic crisis, ... -
‘Images, Reflections, Mirrors’: Student Perspectives on the Financial Crisis and Challenges for Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )This site explored student perspectives on development in view of the current financial crisis. The site worked with the 2009/10 cohort of IDS students, focusing on their motivations for entering the development sector, ...
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