Archive for Development
Development is the flagship journal of the Society for International Development (SID) published four times a year by Palgrave Macmillan. On this page you can find editorials and main articles from the most recent issues of Development. You are welcome to post your comments and share your opinions with us. We look forward to your ideas!
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Migration, gender and development: A conversation from a comparative perspective
How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in international migration patterns between women and men? Sara Farris’ article - published on Development Vol. 53.1 'New Institutions for Development'– seeks to answer these questions focusing on fema...
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Interview with Catherine Walsh: Human Development and Buen Vivir
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Catherine Walsh, an activist-intellectual long involved in social movement struggle, first in the USA and in the last 15 years in Ecuador and Latin America with...
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Virtual launch: Vol. 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’
Twenty years after the first publication of the UNDP Human Development report, the journal revisits the concept of human development. How can human development be revitalized to empower people to enact change? In 2010, Volume 53 of Development will return to those key themes raised by the founders o...
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Interview with Gustavo Esteva: Land and the commons: new forms of citizens’ struggle
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Gustavo Esteva, a grassroots activist and public, deprofessionalized intellectual. Author of more than 30 books, he was advisor to the Zapatistas and participat...
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Interview with David Woodward: How to change the global governance system
On the occasion of the launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed David Woodward, Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (nef) and co-founder of Economic Governance for Health. Click here to read the abstract of David W...
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New Forms of Citizen’s Engagement
By Fatma Alloo I come from Zanzibar where we claim to be Zanzibar first and then something else! ‘Where people do not go to street to demand [electrical] power (umeme) but do so to demand political power’ (Mwafaka). I grew up in a visionary society. My conscious years were throu...
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Report from the launch of ‘Beyond Economics’ in Tanzania
'Beyond Economics: An East African Conversation', the East African launch of the journal Development 52.3 'Beyond Economics', took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 2-3 February 2010. Read the whole report of the launch 'Beyond Economics: An East African Conversation'. The meeting brough...
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Launch of Development 53.1 ‘New Institutions for Development’
What would development institutions look like if gender equality and women’s empowerment were the central goal? The launch of Development 53.1 'New Institutions for Development' will take place on 3 March during the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The event will be chaired by De...
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Farida Shaheed appointed independent expert in the field of cultural rights by Human Rights Council
As the latest issue of Development tackles the themes of 'Xenophobia, Culture and Identity', SID welcomes the news that Ms Farida Shaheed, Director of Research in Shirkat Gah's Women's Resource Centre in Pakistan and long-term collaborator of Development, was appointed independent expert in the fiel...
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Launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’ in Tanzania
A third launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’ will take place in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on 2-3 February 2010. The launch will bring together African partners in the SID and HIVOS networks involved in research and advocacy looking at the impact of the systemic crises on African developme...
