November 2011
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Report: Translation and Traducture: Promoting...
This panel looked at the issue of Translation and Traducture on “representation” and images and their impact on development discourse. This follows on from the first panel which addressed knowledge, translation and Traducture from the point of view of the Diaspora. The notions describe not only linguistic, cultural and knowledge translation, but further, addresses issues of deep translation, based...
October 2011
27 posts
Report: Mapping India’s Capitalism - Old and New...
The purpose of the first session, entitled `Maps and their explanations’ is to explore capitalism in India from a regional perspective using geographical tools as maps. Mapping Indian capitalism enables the analysis of differences and specifities among Indian geographical regions and areas. Considering different aspects of the recent economic development (after the neoliberal reforms in...
Report: Capitalism and Informality in China and...
The panel was structured in three sessions: (1) Capital; (2) Labour and (3) Middle Classes and Non-Polar Classes.
Session 1: Capital
This session explores the capitalist development in the two major Asian countries, China and India. As Professor Harriss-White suggests: a way to rethink development is a more deep analysis of the current capitalist processes and their implications, such as informal...
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Report: From Realism to Constructivism and...
The panel was particularly interested in debating the challenges to European aid policies from new international donors such as Brazil, India or China.
There is a tendency to claim that the emergence of these new international donors will change the existing aid paradigms based on the principles set by the Paris Declaration in 2005. Yet there seems to be no clear idea on what this new paradigm...
“You can’t propel knowledge into the world and expect change to happen.”
– Ideas4development Blog
Panel on Climate Change, Agriculture and...
By Dr Anand Prathivadi Bhayankaram
Three papers were presented in this panel. What was remarkable was that the three papers had several common denominators in terms of theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as Ostrom’s institutional analysis and design (IAD) framework or in terms of extending and adapting value chain analysis in combination with contextual and other methodological...
Report: Working Group on Europe and Latin America...
by Claude Auroi
In the first paper, Negociating rural development: the role of poor people in the Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy, Sandra Contzen (University of Zurich) argued that participation of the civil society in general and of poor people in specific was a major concern of the Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). While research has been done on the participation possibilities...
Report: Working Group on Europe and Latin America...
by Claude Auroi
In the first paper of this session, Social exclusion, social cohesion : defining narratives for development in Latin America, Karem Sanchez de Roldan, (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia) argued that during the last decade and a half an overview of the social scene in Latin America has been annually provided by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean...
Rethinking the Role of Intermediaries in Bridging...
By Yaso Kunaratnam
The term ‘knowledge intermediary’ is something that’s open to different interpretations. So last week as I sat in a session at the DSA/ EADI conference examining the role of intermediaries in bridging policy, research and uptake, I was really interested to see where the discussions would go. Read more at the Ideas4development blog
Report: Working Group on Europe and Latin America...
by Claude Auroi
The subtitle of the general conference applies well to the Latin American context. There are new voices, new leaders in the region. More groups and people claim for what they want. The establishment of democracy had helped a lot those people, and especially poor people.
The three papers presented today follow the idea of finding new paradigms and look for the effects at social...
Report: Working Group on Multi-Dimensional Poverty...
In the second session of the Working Group on Multi-Dimensional Poverty Christopher Maclay and Hannah Marsden presented their work with Shiree (Bangladesh), an organization working on income generation opportunities through cash transfers for the extreme poor in Bangladesh. They identified that the extreme poor, even when given the chance, rarely choose to invest their income in sustainable...
Report: Working Group on Multi-Dimensional Poverty...
In her paper, “Identifying Synergies and Complementarities Between MDGs: Results from Cluster Analysis“, Maria Carmela Lo Bue argues that progress in the MDGs has been far from uniform, both on a country-country basis and between MDGs within a given country. There is, for instance, no correlation between GDP growth and non-income MDGs. The purpose of this research is to explain this lack of...
Report: Emerging Economies in the Context of...
By Clare Gorman
“We probably underestimate the consequences of this seismic change for our half-a-century old public policy… And it is not a move that can be curbed significantly: whether we applaud or lament it, the genie will not come back into the box.”[1]
Over the next decade, an unprecedented number of decisions will be taken which will set new trends in global development. Such issues...
Report: The New Geography of Global Poverty:...
by Nisha Agrawal
The session on “The New Geography of Global Poverty: Trends and Implications” which I chaired at the DSA-EADI Conference on Rethinking development does make you rethink about the future of poverty, aid and global relationships in a rapidly changing world.
The session threw up a lot of questions on the definition (Sabina Alkire’s paper on MPI) and measurement...
Report: The new Geography of Global Poverty:...
by Simon Maxwell
There were three excellent papers in this session, respectively by Andy Sumner and Ravi Kanbur, Svea Koch and Nisha Agrawal. Together, they picked up a key question addressed by Ravi Kanbur in the opening plenary, about whether or not aid should continue to be provided to middle income countries. Ravi had concentrated on how IDA rules might be amended to make it possible to...
Report: Exploring the Interaction Between Urban...
The presentations in this panel focused on large scale urban projects as well the related contestations and eviction drives in the cases from India and South Africa. The seven papers were related to settlement dynamics, mega projects and urban governance in the cities of Chennai, Delhi, Cape Town and Durban. The case study of Delhi in the three presentations presented the new dynamics of the real...
WatchÜmit Özlale talks about Turkey in the SDC Panel on Emerging Economies
Report: Working Group on Industrialisation...
by Meine Pieter van Dijk
The Role of China in Africa in an age of scarcity and uncertainty is a new phenomenon, which deserves more empirical study. What are their underlying motives and values? What voices are heard and which alliances are forged? Does a third major partner besides the EU and the USA make Africa more resilient?
1. M.P. van Dijk China’s Increased Presence in Africa Makes a Great...
Report: Working Group on Gender and Development...
In the last session of the working group there was a presentation by Ranu Tomar (Centre for Jawaharial Nehru Studies) on Gender and Media in India. The author presented findings from an exploratory study on women’s status in major Hindi newspapers in Delhi which should feed into the elaboration of research hypotheses for further Ph.D. research. Her findings hinted at an expansion of working...
Report: Are sub-Saharan African societies still...
The panel dealt with internal and external factors of resilience in sub-Saharan African societies.
The first paper presented by Jacques Charmes (CEPED, France) ‘Informal employment, social protection and social capital: dimensions of resilience in sub-Saharan Africa’ focused on the informal economy, and social capital - measured through household-to-household transfers and women’s unpaid work in...
Disasters, Climate Change and Development: What do...
Jonathan Ensor from Practical Action reviews the barriers and drivers to integrating climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. What is the missing link in disasters? According to Terry Cannon, in a session I attended today it is the attention to social and cultural issues that mediate preparedness and perceptions of risk. Terry highlighted the need to think more broadly about the...
Rethinking or Revisiting? Let’s not Throw out the...
By Emilie Wilson In his welcome address the outgoing President of the DSA, Lawrence Haddad suggests that ‘Rethinking development is not about us simply re-surfacing our own pet ideas, it is about co-constructing new ideas and new norms.’ Yesterday, I attended two sessions which looked at the global development knowledge ecology – with an emphasis by Robin Mansell on ecology, not economy. ...
Report: Modernising European Development Policy in...
by Mikaela Gavas
The European Think Tanks Group panel on ‘Modernising European Development Cooperation’, featured James Mackie (ECDPM), Imme Scholz (DIE), Alison Evans (ODI), Sachin Chaturvedi (Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries, New Delhi) and Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow) on the panel, with Simon Maxwell chairing.
The discussion began with what researchers...
Report: Transformations in the World System –...
The third session of the working group “Transformations in the World System – Comparative Studies of Development” which took place on September 21 was started by Mr Rustem Nureev’s (Russia) presentation on the contradictory results of the Russian transformation over the last 20 years. These results are mainly conditioned by the institutional deficiencies that have been maintained because of the...
September 2011
60 posts
What if the World’s Poor live in Non-Poor...
By Andy Sumner
Until now, poverty has been viewed as a poor country issue, but now that most of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries, donors will need to rethink their approaches and strategies. Two decades ago, almost all of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income. Now, 72% of the world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries. This “new...
There is an Alternative to the Relationship of...
By Dr. Medicine Masiiwa
The EU- Southern Africa relations date back to the dark ages of slavery and colonialism. Sort of rider-horse relations with the latter always coming second-best.
The early 1970s ushered in a new era of a relationship that was based on some degree of mutual respect and equality (Lomé Agreement). Southern African countries were full of hope because Lomé granted them...
An Exercise in Stone Rolling
As the DSA/ EADI conference discusses new partnerships in development, Rodger Williamson describes the intellectual and practical realities of working with academics and philanthropists.
What difference does it make to someone trying to live on a dollar a day if a few hundred billion dollars get wiped off the New York or Tokyo stock exchanges? Some things work brilliantly, but a lot of...
What is resilience?
by Andy Sumner
“Global shocks in economics, food security and fuel prices, together with chronic stressors relating to demographic pressure, climate change and resource scarcity – aka ‘the long crisis of globalisation’ or the ‘perfect storm’ of problems – are combining to produce complex, shifting configurations of vulnerability as experienced by households and communities. And all ...
Photos: EADI-DSA Rethinking Development Conference
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, presents on Aid to Middle Income Countries.
More photos available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17082394@N00/page2/
The development community must adapt to a changing...
Louise Stoddard reports on the EADI-DSA conference from York. Read the full story on the Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog
Rethinking Development Conference Photos
See the full album at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17082394@N00/
Report: Working Group on Gender and Development....
by Anouka van Eerdewijk
This session was part of the Working Group on Gender and Development, and was chaired by Anouka van Eerdewijk. In the paper Global Financial Crisis and Local Innovations, Tahmina Rashid explored informal savings and credit schemes, in which resources are pooled. In the Pakistan’s case, these pooled resources can be used for both consumable and non-consumable goods. The...
Report: Rethinking Governance for Development in...
by Vikki Chambers
This was the second of the panels presented by the Africa, Power and Politics Programme (APPP). The Chair, Richard Crook, opened the panel by explaining that the overall aim of the APPP is to better understand the institutions and forms of collective action which ‘work’ better for development by providing public goods. The programme’s hypothesis is that institutions work best...
Report: New Development Strategies for LDCs in...
Ulrich HOFFMAN (UNCTAD) made a presentation on a paper he wrote concerning climate change (CC), green growth (GG) illusions and development space.
He explained that the paper was in response to the UN process in preparation of Rio+20 which is based on a bottom up approach analysis and not an objective analysis of the trends for the future in his view. It relies more on anecdotal evidence, mostly...
Report: New Development Strategies for LDCs in...
Ulrich HOFFMANN (UNCTAD) started off by reminding the panel participants of agriculture’s importance, especially in developing countries where it is the major component of the economy.
In countries like China, this is still very much the case and agriculture has been used as a major source of accumulation to pull the rest of the economy, thereby contributing/driving the industrial process....
Report: European Report on Development Panel,...
Alison EVANS (ODI), chair of the session, presented the aim of the panel: to share initial policy issues emerging from the European Report on Development (ERD) and propose ways of addressing them. She made a mention of the audience of this report which intends to have global resonance but targets more particularly EU policy makers at all levels.
Dirk Willem TE VELDE (ODI, ERD team leader)...
Report: Foreign Direct Investment and Developing...
The panel on ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Developing Countries: Inflows, Outflows and Development Strategies’ has dealt with the role of FDI in development processes from two different points of view. On the one hand, it explores the impact of inward FDI in developing host countries both from a theoretical point of view (presentation by Carlos M. Macías, Iliana Olivié and Aitor Pérez on ‘Opening...
Report: Institutionalization of Local Practices of...
by Alejandro Guarín
The forces of globalization sometimes appear unstoppable. Goods and services, technology and information, institutions and even value systems move around the world with increasing ease and speed. On the ground, however, these changes flesh out in complicated and often surprising ways.
People do not wait passively for whatever comes from above, but instead negotiate those...
Report: The Role of Intermediaries in Bridging...
Jon Gregson, Head of IDS Knowledge Services, opened the session by asking participants whether they worked for a knowledge intermediary organisation. Three quarters of the room raised their hands, which suggests in theory that the room was pretty knowledgeable about what an intermediary is. It’s a term that’s very much open to different interpretations so I was interested to see where the session...
Report: Development Needs Citizens - Rethinking...
by Matt Baillie Smith
If, as Duncan Green claims in his book From Poverty to Power, “This century, humanity will either sink or learn to swim together”, then a key question, according to Dr. Matthias Fiedler of Dublin City University is, “who needs swimming lessons, and who should be the swimming instructor”.
Matthias’ contribution was part of a panel on “development education as a tool for...
Report: As Well as the Subject: Additional...
by Laura Camfield
This was the second session of the panel ‘As well as the subject: additional dimensions in development research ethics’ (organisers Laura Camfield and Richard Palmer-Jones, UEA) which addresses values in research and research publication and dissemination. The panel will be followed by a series of workshops at UEA London from October 2011-February 2012.
Prof. Joanna Bornat’s...
Report: The Scramble for Natural Resources and...
The contributions in this panel were based on three different chapters in an edited book (2011, Palgrave) entitled ‘Natural resources and local livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa’ (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda).
The different chapters of the book all address the following question: What are the opportunities and constraints for local actors’ participation in...
Report: Wellbeing in an Age of Scarcity and...
Neil Thin started off by welcoming everybody to the session, which was well-attended.
Sarah White: ‘Beyond Subjective Wellbeing: A critical review of the Stiglitz Report Approach to Subjective Perspectives on Quality of Life’.
The presentation welcomed the Stiglitz Report’s emphasis on bringing wellbeing to the centre of policy discussion. The second important point was that subjective...
Report: Rethinking Development in an Age of...
by Duncan Green
In this session, Oxfam and Exfam (former Oxfam) staff presented the thinking behind its new Grow campaign, and an ex Action Aider (Claire Melamed, now head of the Growth and Equity team at ODI) discussed.
Duncan Green (Head of Research, Oxfam) gave an introduction to NGO campaigning, based on his chapter for the forthcoming 3rd edition of ‘The New Economic Diplomacy’. He stressed...
