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Upcoming Talk
I’ll be running my mouth about the book again at Chatham University on December 2nd. Chatham has some very cool stuff going in sustainability and the environment (a new school!), including a new Eden...
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Another talk – Gainsville, anyone?
I will be speaking about my book and research at the University of Florida on Friday as part of the Glen R. Anderson Visiting Lectureship. Poster here: Hope to see folks there!
View ArticleDevelopment Studies: A Disciplinary Home for Interdisciplinary Work?
I continue my musings on the recent emergence of development studies in the American academy . . . The rise of development studies presents two interesting opportunities for development in general – a...
View ArticleOn the difference between evidence-based and participatory
Ben Leo at ONE.org (formerly of CGD) put forth an intriguing proposal recently on Huffington Post Impact: It’s Time to Ask the World’s Poor What They Really Want. In short, Ben is trying to argue that...
View ArticleGDP versus State Accessible Product (SAP)?
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am working through James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed (my endorsement is in the linked post). In the course of my reading, I have been thinking about what...
View ArticleData Wins! Is The End of Poverty Traps the End of the White Man’s Burden?
I’ve long hated the term “poverty traps,” development shorthand for conditions in which poverty becomes self-reinforcing and therefore inescapable without some sort of external intervention. They made...
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Doing Food Security Differently – Theme 4: The future is already being fed
While many paint the combined impact of climate change and global markets as something new, unpredictable, and unmanageable, they fail to grasp that most situations we are projected to see in the next...
View ArticleGlobal Policy: The Future is Already Being Fed
Andy Sumner was kind enough to invite me to provide a blog entry/chapter for his forthcoming e-book The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Aid. I decided to use the platform as...
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Five years later, and I am proud of Delivering Development again
Five and half years ago, at the end of the spring semester of 2009, I sat down and over the course of 30 days drafted my book Delivering Development. The book was, for me, many things: an effort to...
View ArticleDevelopment, Donors, and (the lack of) SDG politics
Last week, I published a short editorial in Scientific American’s SA Forum online that decried the near-total lack of organization or prioritization in the Sustainable Development Goals/Global...
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