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Reconnection! The breakdown of international cooperation calls for a new perspective

by Jos van Gennip Introduction  'There is reason for concern about the......growing power of non-governmental institutions in the area of international financial and economic...

Development 55.1 'Greening the economy' is out now!

RIO Summit 2012: What to expect? Interview with Tariq Banuri

Q: Which expectations should we have with regards to the upcoming Rio Summit 2012? Are we going to achieve a good agreement with a feasible agenda? What should young people expect...

The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp. Conversation part I

  by Bethany Ojalehto In refugee camps, the confinement and pervasive violation of human rights alters the relevance of time and space to daily life and challenges the individual...

People Have the Power! Jan Pronk interviewed

In this interview, Jan Pronk points out that the traditional divide between rich and poor nations has transformed into a more complex divide between classes within all countries....

Welcome to Ali Hersi New Director at the SID Regional Office for Eastern Africa

The Society for International Development is pleased to welcome Ali Hersi, new Director at the SID Regional Office for Eastern Africa. Ali joined the staff in Nairobi on November...

People Starve Because Policy Fails!

It is often feared that people's access to livelihoods and resources is more at stake in urban contexts as it can be exacerbated by rural-to-urban migration (people move to cities...

Are We Moving Towards a Sustainable Future? Reflections from the SID World Congress

by Angela Zarro We are living in a moment of uncertainty, when we need to ask the right questions and find the right answers, SID President Jan Pronk said at the opening speech of...

Responses to the Care Crisis. UNFPA-SID meeting in Washington D.C.

SID together with UNFPA held a brainstorming meeting on responses to care crisis on July 28th in Washington, DC, just before the SID World Congress 2011. The care crisis is not...

Sustainable Human Development: Beyond the concept

by Sanjay G. Reddy    Sustainable human development has become an empty mantra. Those who invoke it alert us that they are not oblivious to certain concerns, in particular those...

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