Reflections on 50 years of Development
Fatma Alloo, Peggy Antrobus, Robert J Berg, Louis Emmerij, Arturo Escobar, Gustavo Esteva, ...
The Politics of Aid: The normatives of giving and receiving
Shobha Raghuram calls for another look at the politics of development. She argues that we need to rethink policy frameworks, the avenues of negotiation, the forms of resistance and the choices which...
The MDGs in a World of Multiplying Inequalities and Differentiating Complexities
Shobha Raghuram (independent researcher and until recently director of an international NGO working in India) responds to the three articles by Jan Vandemoortele (a Beligum national working at the...
Pro-Poor Development in Crisis: Combating economic recession and market fundamentalism
The economic recession underscores a foundational political crisis, in which market-oriented reforms have led to a cyclical readjustment of injustice with the poor subsidizing the bailouts. When...