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The DEV blog provides staff the opportunity to comment on key issues in International Development.
27 Mar 2013
Posted by Emma Louise Gilberthorpe
Are extractive industries ‘development’ industries?
At last year’s Mining for Change conference, AngloGold Ashanti’s CEO, Mark Cutifani, stated that: “Instead of calling us the extractive industry I would like us to become known as the...20 Mar 2013
Posted by Penelope Jane Plowman
Reflective Practice
‘We know we should stop and reflect but we don’t know how?’ This first blog on Reflective Practice looks at the power of writing for reflection using the Personal Learning Journal. ...15 Mar 2013
Posted by Bryan Maddox
Do literacy inequalities matter?
Inequalities are firmly on the post 2015 education and development agenda. Kevin Watkins recently argued that inequality is one of ‘the defining human development issues of our age’ ...01 Mar 2013
Posted by Penelope Jane Plowman
Comments on One Billion Rising
Thank you for reading my blog of the 18 th February and for sharing your experiences and reflections on One Billion Rising. Many people have responded directly to me and I thought it would be...26 Feb 2013
Posted by Martin Peter Scott
Reporting the Kenyan elections: 5 things we can learn from last time
‘The police are caught between two tribes whose thirst for blood has not been sated’ - ITV News, 28.1.08 ‘The appetite for bloodshed here doesn’t seem to be waning’ - Sky News, 29.1.08 ...26 Feb 2013
Posted by Yvan Yann Guichaoua
Mali: Towards a neo-trusteeship?
This is the second part of a two-part analysis of the present situation in Mali. Part I, entitled “Mali: the fallacy of ungoverned space” is available here . Preventing the fall of...22 Feb 2013
Posted by Colette Harris
Why violence, why men?
When deciding what photos to use for the header for our website we wanted to avoid stereotyping. We specifically did not want to show women victims of violence, male soldiers, or even the two...22 Feb 2013
Posted by Rebecca Jana Beer Roberts
Global Food Security Strategic Initiative
The University of Cambridge: Global Food Security Strategic Initiative 28th January 2013 Kings Place, London Cambridge University have recently launched a Global Food Security...18 Feb 2013
Posted by Penelope Jane Plowman
Reflection on One Billion Rising
How was your Valentine’s Day? I hope it was full of love. This was the day that one organisation, V- Day, organised a mass action to draw attention to the problem of violence against women...15 Feb 2013
Posted by Colette Harris
Gender, Masculinities and Gang Rape in India
Over the past few weeks following an attack of extreme violence on a 23-year-old woman medical student on a Delhi bus we have been hearing about the attempts of people in India to stand up publicly...14 Feb 2013
Posted by Penelope Jane Plowman
What will you be doing this Valentine's Day?
What will you be doing this Valentine’s Day? Will you be joining the ‘ One Billion Rising’ campaign to eradicate violence against women and girls? The call by ‘ V-Day ’, a global activist...12 Feb 2013
Posted by Yvan Yann Guichaoua
Mali: the fallacy of ungoverned spaces
This is the first part of a two-part analysis of the present situation in Mali. Part II, entitled “Mali: toward a neo-trusteeship?” explores the responses to Mali’s crisis. Repeatedly in...29 Jan 2013
Posted by Bryan Maddox
The End of Illiteracy?
Throughout the last century, one of the preoccupations of educational policy makers and social reformers worldwide was to combat ‘illiteracy’. The term is a double edged sword – drawing...25 Jan 2013
Posted by David Girling
Celebrity Advocacy, Social Media and International Development
I was preparing a lecture the other day on the use of social media by International NGOs. During my research I watched a lot of videos on Youtube and I noticed how few views many of the celebrity...08 Jan 2013
Posted by Bereket Kebede
Growth diagnostics: A powerful policy tool or a fad?
A group of prominent economists developed the growth diagnostics approach to policy analysis in developing countries (Hausman, et al., 2005; Hausman, et al., 2008). This was partly a reaction...11 Dec 2012
Posted by David Girling
Kony 2012: Success or Failure?
Last week I attended a lecture entitled Kony 2012: Success or Failure by Sophie Chalk from the International Broadcasting Trust as the finale to the wonderful Media and Development...10 Dec 2012
Posted by Cecile Jackson
Women bishops and ungodly bodies
The degree of resistance by the Church of England to women bishops has surprised many, presenting the strange spectacle of the Church of England as the last bastion of formal institutional sexism....03 Dec 2012
Posted by Peter Geoffrey Lloyd-Sherlock
Assymetric social protection for older people
As is well known, South Africa has one of the most generous and extensive social pension systems for a middle income country. Quite rightly, the South African Old Age Grant is taken as a...26 Nov 2012
Posted by Martin Peter Scott
Media, Power and Cameron: What’s next for media and development?
Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron has described media and communication as being, until very recently, ‘the fifth wheel in the car of development’. Indeed, a recent survey of relevant policy makers...19 Nov 2012
Posted by Martin Peter Scott
