What’s Hot and What’s Not? Changes in development thinking in the last 5 years Duncan Green IDS 2013
What’s Hot and What’s Not?Changes in development thinking in
the last 5 years
Duncan GreenIDS
2013
Global Financial Crisis
Global Food Price Spikes
The Arab Spring
Climate Chaos
New Thinking on Development: Where do Poor People live?
Women for Development v Development for Women
The nature of poverty: volatility, well-being, chronic v
churning
Complex Systems v causal chains
Multipolar world – who’s in charge?
Helping Others v Do No Harm
Make Poverty History (2005)• Aid• Debt• Trade
IF (2013)• Aid• Tax Loopholes• Land Grabs• Transparency
Cinderella Issues
People on the move: global
People on the move: Urban
Waves of New Technology
So what did FP2P get right/wrong?• How Change Happens as key area of study• Inequality and redistribution (banks,
resources)• Active citizens and effective states, but– Market power needs to be in there
• ‘The national’ > global, but......– Climate change/boundaries a game changer (and
a present not future threat)– Financial system remains a huge threat
“In telling us what can be achieved byordinary people through organised
action, this book generates hope even as it enhances understanding of what
is involved in the removal of poverty.”Amartya Sen
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