Ideas for Development is an international Blog meant to stimulate debate on development issues. It brings together a set of senior professionals engaged in this sphere through their careers and personal convictions. This Blog aims at offering a new forum for open discussion and interaction between scholars, students, professionals of various backgrounds and the public at large. Together, they can share information, viewpoints and visions for the future with the common goal of advancing the cause of development.
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Last post : January 25, 2012
Thierry PAULAIS : Financing Africa’s cities starts with endogenous resources
Africa is experiencing the highest urban growth rate in the world. Sub-Saharan African cities alone need to gear up to receive over 300 million more people over the next twenty years. To give an idea...
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Last post : November 24, 2011
"Aid helps to transform the lives of millions each year"
In Tanzania in 2000, just over half of children did not go to school – a decade later, underpinned by aid, every child has a place. Every day the lives of almost 500 children – the equivalent of 16...
Last comment : December 17, 2011
Last post : September 19, 2010
UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - 20-22 September 2010
Ten years after the adoption of the Millennium Declaration by all the 189 member states of the UN General Assembly setting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the development community is...
Last comment : September 25, 2010
Last post : June 4, 2010
After Copenhagen, we need visionaries
The Copenhagen Conference of the Parties did not yield the results that were expected both at the time of the 13th Conference of the Parties which took place in Bali in December 2007 and over many...
Last comment : August 28, 2010
Last post : March 24, 2010
A turning point on poverty
In these last five years before 2015, we need political support and accountability to meet the MDGs. Do you remember where you were when the bells rang in the new millennium?...
Last comment : October 4, 2010
Last post : November 25, 2009
A coherent approach to poverty reduction, development and displacement
I believe that a coherent approach to poverty reduction and development needs to include an acknowledgment that refugees represent approximately 16 million of the people who live outside their...
Last comment : August 15, 2010
Last post : November 19, 2009
With the Mounting Climate Crisis, Our Global Trade Inter-Dependency is Vital
As I was jogging today, the image of Jacques Diouf fasting at the opening of the Rome Food Summit came to mind. I could not help but think about the thousands who die of hunger every day. The fresh...
Last comment : September 28, 2010
Last post : October 22, 2009
What our blog members have to say during the EDDs
This year, the 4th edition of the European Development Days (EDD) will be held in Stockholm from the 22nd to the 24th of October. Co-organized by the European Commission and the Swedish Presidency...
Last comment : November 5, 2009
Last post : September 9, 2009
Fixing Global Finance
The global financial and economic crisis, and how to fix it, has dominated newspaper headlines and public policy discussions this year. The financial turmoil which started with the collapse in the...
Last comment : April 9, 2010
Last post : February 5, 2009
Solidarity, safety and regulations
The collection and distribution of unwanted, but still-usable goods is one of the many ways in which the populations of the North demonstrate solidarity with those of the South. This discreet flow...
Last comment : March 12, 2010
Last post : January 8, 2009
The nutrition challenge and what I saw in India
The global financial crisis and the high cost of food mean different things in different places. In those parts of the world where hunger is on the march, their impact can be measured in empty...
Last comment : September 13, 2010
Last post : November 21, 2008
Towards a Green Economy - Elements of a Global Green New Deal
During the past two months we have seen Governments commit more than USD 3000 billion towards stabilizing financial markets. A further USD 2000 billion have already been announced for economic...
Last comment : December 14, 2010
Last post : October 16, 2007
The New International Aid Architecture: New Players, New Challenges, Old Problems?
1. Twenty years ago, 22 members of the OECD/DAC accounted for 95% of total aid to developing countries. Today, aid to developing countries is delivered via more than 150 multilateral...
Last comment : April 8, 2010
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- Thierry PAULAIS : Financing Africa’s cities starts with endogenous resources Africa is experiencing the highest urban growth rate in the world. Sub-Saharan African cities alone...
- Busan: a new beginning for democratic ownership? One of the main objectives of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan was to...
- Aid effectiveness and accountability During the panel on “Aid effectiveness and Accountability”, key development players met to discuss...
- Agenda for change - Human Rights With entire populations rising up in the name of freedom and dignity, the “Arab Spring” has...
- Decentralisation and development: issues and perspectives On Thursday 15 December, a panel event entitled “Spotlight on decentralisation: strengthening local...
- Moving beyond electoral democracies In the spring of 2011, a wind of revolution swept through a number of Mediterranean countries and...
- Modernising European Development Policy The links between development and democracy are a core topic in current discussions on European...
- How to prevent another famine in the Horn of Africa: the role of the EU in building resilience In 2011, the Horn of Africa, which includes Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, experienced its...
- Democracy 3.0: what strategies to adopt for media development? The massive use of communication tools (Twitter, Facebook, mobile phones, etc.) helped give the...
- How to share experiences of transformations: from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the Arab Spring The 2011 popular uprisings in Northern African and Middle East countries constitute a major...
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