What's hot and what's not: How has development thinking changed in the last five years?

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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