Development

Wendy Harcourt has been quite simply a unique Editor. She has crafted four high quality journal issues each year since becoming Editor in 1995. She has explored the contemporary issues of development in an intelligent and expansive manner; shaping each diverse issue into a coherent whole. But she...
Volume 55 Issue 1 | Greening the economy Produced in partnership with UNRISD, this issue critiques the current  push in development to 'green' the economy by applying market mechanisms to nature and the environment without paying enough attention to social justice issues. The issue is...
 
The editorials below cover the most compelling issues of the last years. Through the editor's words, they provide a sense of one way in which SID did and does contribute over the years to the broader development debate. Click on the titles below to read the full text of the editorials. The full...
Reflections on 50 years of Development People of diverse generations, viewpoints and locations who have contributed in important ways to the Society for International Development and to the journal Development over the years, speak about Development, its role in exploring and providing space to...
Volume 53 Issue 4 | Education for transformation Education, like development, means many things to many people. It motivates a broad range of attitudes, perceptions and practice.
Volume 53 issue 3 | Sustaining local economies Despite the global economic crisis, can we sustain local economies? this journal issue, produced in partnership with the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS), keeps hammering away at that critical question in this sequel...
Volume 53 No 2 | Gender and empowerment | June 2010 Twenty years after the first publication of the UNDP Human Development report, the 2010 journal volume revisits the concept of human development. How can human development be revitalized to empower people to enact change?
Volume 52 issue 3 | Beyond economics How has the current financial crisis challenged the givens in economic thinking? How should development policy respond? Can economics be reshaped to meet human development needs? SID in partnership with the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing...