Archive for Interviews
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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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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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How to break the culture of making money from money
During the launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’, which was held in New York on 29-31 October 2009, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed David Korten, president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum and author of numerous books including Agenda for a New Ec...
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Renewable energy: a top priority in fighting climate change
During the launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’, which was held in New York on 29-31 October 2009, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Tariq Banuri, Director of the Division for Sustainable Development at UNDESA. Before joining the United Nations, Tariq Banuri was Senior ...
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The need to reconnect value with values
During the launch of Development 52.3 'Beyond Economics', which was held in New York on 29-31 October 2009, Assistant Editor Laura Fano Morrissey interviewed Nitasha Kaul, economist, scholar and writer based at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. She is the author of t...
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South Africa and the global economic crisis
Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen, who could not attend the launch of Development 52.3 'Beyond Economics' in New York, on the effects of the global economic crisis in South Africa. Ebrahim is an independent researcher and a part-time research associate at the Centre for...
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It is time to put money into the ‘real economy’
As part of the ongoing discussion on Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 leading up to the journal launches in New York (29 October 2009) and The Hague (11 December 2009), Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Randall Wray, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Sen...
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The need to put people and the planet before profit
As part of the ongoing discussion on Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 leading up to the journal launches in New York (29 October 2009) and The Hague (11 December 2009), Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Ana Agostino, member of the Editorial Board of Development. Ana Agostino works for ...
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Smitu Kothari on Dams, Development, and the Ethics of Engagement
by Georgina Drew As we approach the launch of Development 52.3 in memory of Indian activist, scholar and long-time SID collaborator Smitu Kothari, SID has decided to publish an interview he gave to Georgina Drew, a Ph.D. candidate at UNC, Chapel Hill on 29 March 2007. The interview highlighted Sm...

