Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously...
From the Economist: In December 2007 the World Bank unveiled the results of the biggest exercise in window shopping in history. Scouts in 146 countries scoured stalls, supermarkets and mail-order...
View ArticleImprove Devlopment Lending to Build Resilience
Andrew Revkin writes in the New York Times about a recent world bank report that finds that the world bank is not lending in ways that invest in natural capital or resilience (The report is online at...
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Scenario-planning for robust development in small-scale farming
Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania is a new paper my colleagues Elin Enfors and Line Gordon from the Stockholm...
View ArticleSTEPS Centre Reframing Resilience report
Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, has written and posted a report on the Reframing Resilience symposium the centre hosted in Sept 2008 (Re-framing Resilience: A Symposium Report – pdf...
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Income, fertility and the world’s demographic trajectory
data from Gapminder The Economists looks at recent declines in fertility discusses current projections of world population, and how changes in a country’s demographic structure shape its economic...
View ArticleGates and CGIAR
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the wealthiest private foundation in the world, joined the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in December 2009. CGIAR is funds a...
View ArticleFailFaire
That people need to learn in order to build a better world is a key idea motivating a lot of resilience projects, and learning requires failures that you can learn from. In New York Times Stephanie...
View ArticleInformation and Communication Technologies and Climate Change
Richard Heeks and Angelica Ospina at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics‘ run the blog Notes on ICTs, Climate Change and Development. Recently Angelica Ospina wrote about...
View ArticleToyama’s myths of information technology and development
Dr. Kentaro Toyama, a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, presents 10 myths of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in development that persist...
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A report from the Stockholm Dialogue on Global Sustainability
Below is a guest post from Megan Meacham, a former Masters student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, on the final day of the recent Stockholm Nobel laureate symposium. The final day of the symposium,...
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The developing world economies rise following financial crisis
From the Economist, the GDP per person has risen rapidly in some developing countries while stagnating in rich countries:
View ArticleAnalysis of impact of recent global crises on development
In the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog Lawrence Haddad, director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, writes What impact have the global crises had on development thinking? He...
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