Institute of Development Studies (Brighton)
Website: http://www.ids.ac.uk/
August 02
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Africa: Development Research - the Shape of Things to Come? [guest blog]
A colleague of mine outside of IDS recently asked me for my opinion on development research--what was the demand going to look like and what would need to happen to meet that... Read more »
July 31
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Zambia: Nutrition in Zambia - On the Cusp? a Call for Abstracts [guest blog]
Zambia is the next in the IDS series of country-focused collections of papers on undernutrition. Read more »
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Africa: Spices and Women's Empowerment - I Have Been Surprised [guest blog]
I'm currently undertaking a work-based learning placement as part of the IDS MA course in Participation, Power and Social Change and it has been one and a half months since I have... Read more »
July 30
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Africa: From Failure to Flies and Beyond - Our Top 10 Posts [opinion]
It has been nearly a year since the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at IDS started the Povertics blog as a space for our researchers to share their thoughts, analysis and... Read more »
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Africa: No, I Have Not Been Fired... [analysis]
As you know, the position of Director of IDS is being advertised, for a July 2014 start. Read more »
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Africa: IDS Update July 2013 [guest blog]
We are looking for someone with flair, experience and strong academic credibility to take up this exciting opportunity to head one of the world's leading organisations for... Read more »
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Africa: IDS Prepares to Say Goodbye and Good Luck to This Year's MA Students [guest blog]
IDS would like to congratulate the MA students who will be completing their masters degrees this September after a year of working hard. Read more »
July 29
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Africa: Get the Key Data On Hunger and Undernutrition [guest blog]
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) today published the first installment in a new series which presents key data on government commitment to reduce hunger and... Read more »
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Africa: The Marriage Trap - the Pleasures and Perils of Same-Sex Equality [guest blog]
As legislative battles for same-sex equality have rumbled on in western countries over the last fifteen years, each successive victory has concentrated attention increasingly upon... Read more »
July 27
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Africa: IDS Transforming Nutrition Summer School 2013 - Debates and Reflections [guest blog]
Well, that was intense, but fun. I'm talking about he the IDS Summer School on Transforming Nutrition. The 25 participants are shown above. About half from high burden countries... Read more »
July 25
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Africa: Donation to the Scholarship Fund Doubled As IDS Matches Contributions. [guest blog]
IDS was delighted to receive a €5,000 donation to its new Scholarship Fund from an alumni who had attended the recent alumni event in Geneva. IDS is currently matching... Read more »
July 24
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Africa: Vulnerability and Adaptation By Numbers [guest blog]
Will the research we are doing to analyse vulnerability give us the information we need for robust climate change adaptation? IDS Research Fellow, Andy Newsham, is not convinced. Read more »
July 23
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Egypt: Growing Anger With Western Opinion [guest blog]
This blog has previously been posted on Open Democracy. Read more »
July 22
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Africa: Reading Riots [guest blog]
For researchers of popular politics, at least, it is no curse to live in interesting times. The past weeks have seen: Read more »
July 19
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Africa: Measuring the Performance of Tax Collectors - Good Sense, Quietly Buried [guest blog]
Does Argentina collect its taxes more efficiently and effectively than Azerbaijan? Brazil than Burundi? Chad than Colombia? Read more »
July 18
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Africa: What Does Brazil's Wave of Protests Mean for Development? [guest blog]
The protests sweeping Brazil are dense with meaning and hard to read. They seem spontaneous, loosely organised, and with no clear political agenda. Those taking part appear... Read more »
July 15
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Africa: China and Brazil in African Agriculture
New research published by the Institute of Development Studies reveals the realities of how the BRICS and Africa are engaging in agricultural development cooperation. Read more »
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Africa: Moving Beyond the North-South 'Development Divide' [guest blog]
Over the last five years I have visited Madrid several times each year, normally staying for a week or two with my in-laws. In the autumn/winter of 2011, I lived there for four... Read more »
July 14
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Africa: Why Should You Study for a PhD At IDS? [press release]
July in Brighton sees Summer Graduation for University of Sussex students and since IDS teaches several University courses, I was there to read out the IDS graduates' names and to... Read more »
July 12
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Africa: IDS PhD Students Graduate in Summer Ceremony [guest blog]
IDS would like to congratulate nine students who have received their PhDs in a ceremony held at the Brighton Dome. The ceremony was attended by IDS director Lawrence Haddad, who... Read more »
July 08
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Africa: Mixing Methods in Research On Poverty and Vulnerability - 10 Years On [guest blog]
In his recent article in World Development, Paul Shaffer states that "[...] the recent decade has been marked by a significant increase in the quantity of mixed methods materials... Read more »
July 05
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Egypt: Mobocracy, Democracy or Autocracy? [guest blog]
One of our Fellows at IDS, Mariz Tadros, is an expert on political movements and is Egyptian. After reading the Western media, I was puzzled: why is there such relief that a... Read more »
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Egypt: Real-Time Insights Into Gender-Based Violence in Egypt
IDS has launched a new interactive online resource as part of its Empowerment of Women and Girls research programme, which provides timely insights into the collective forms of... Read more »
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Egypt: Understanding the Politics and Pulse of Egypt's Protests
Following the largest ever political gathering in history, Egypt's army appointed head of the Supreme Constitutional Court as a temporary president, suspended the constitution and... Read more »
July 04
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Egypt: Missing the Pulse of Egypt's Citizens? [analysis]
The representation of the revolution in Egypt as simply a military coup shows how disconnected western media and political analysts are from the citizens' pulse- after all this was... Read more »
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