In pursuit of development
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Planners, searchers and doers
There is an ongoing debate on the role and impact of development planning. Supporters of five-year or 10-year plans claim…
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Rethinking Africa’s transport needs
The city of Lagos has recently banned motorcycles. Locally known as “okadas”, the authorities accuse these vehicles of causing “chaos…
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Living within limits
The problem is enormous and growing. The evidence is compelling. Human activity, and our increased consumption of fossil fuels, has…
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Look to Malawi!
I t is Tuesday morning. For large parts of Monday, I patiently listened to the lengthy, meticulously detailed and landmark…
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Responding to epidemics
The global health crisis emerging from the spread of the coronavirus is attracting renewed attention on the ability of health…
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Politics and the SDGs
There is growing interest in “sustainable development”, defined by the Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report as “development that meets the needs…
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Ensuring seed security
T he Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s largest and most important secure seed storage facility, is located 1 300…
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Malawi in 2020
The start of a new year offers an opportunity to reflect on goals, aspirations and plans as well as assess…
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Appreciating what works in development
The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has recently proclaimed 2019 to be the “best year ever” in human history.…
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Inequality and human development
The Nobel laureate in economics Professor Amartya Sen has long argued that human beings constitute the ‘ends’ of economic activity,…
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