The Global Development Seminar Series kicks off next Wednesday October 14 with a free seminar by Institute of Development Studies Director Melissa Leach. Melissa will be speaking on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Towards Transformations in a Global Development...
By Professor David Hulme The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of different goals, from those regarding child and women’s rights to hunger and the...
Watch Professor David Hulme outline some further thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals in this short interview with Adam Farkas from That’s Manchester. Also check out: David’s thoughts on global governance for the Guardian. 7 reasons the SDGs will...
By Professor David Hulme The imminent announcement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is generating real debate amongst researchers, NGOs and academics about their level of ambition and the likelihood success. Will they be business as usual for the aid...
By Professor Diana Mitlin Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes a clear commitment to universal access to sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This wording may have been tricky to negotiate, but...
By Professor Uma Kothari The impacts of climate change are likely to be severe. Extreme weather events, heat stress, rising sea levels, infections and disease are just some potential results, which will hit poor and vulnerable populations in developing countries...
We’re counting down to the UN summit to ratify the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Over on Twitter and Facebook, we’re sharing an SDG a day along with a morsel of research from our academic staff and students. Below are a selection of this images,...
Professor David Hulme is currently at the World Social Science Forum in South Africa, where he delivered the following presentation, charting the shift from the Millennium Development Goals, to the Sustainable Development Goals. You can also watch a recording of the...
By Professor Armando Barrientos Perhaps the greatest failing of the Millennium Development Goals was their focus on aid as the main financing tool for development. This ‘cosmopolitan’ perspective has often misdirected attention away from basic fiscal policy in...
Dr. Nicola Banks‘ research looks at the experiences of young people in Arusha, Tanzania and their struggles to find employment while living in poverty. During her last research visit, Nicola recorded this video, outlining the potential (and the pitfalls) of...
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