Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice

Making Anti-Corruption Real: A strategy for feasible reform in adverse contexts. Speakers: Mushtaq Khan and Pallavi Roy , SOAS Discussant: Jonathan Di John , SOAS Chair: James Putzel, LSE

The Russia-Ukraine War: Consequences for global security and development. Panel:  Mark Lowcock, UN, UK Yuliya Yurchenko, Greenwich University Anna Matveeva, King's College London David Luke, LSE Chair: James Putzel, LSE

In search of repair: The necessity of community development to mental health improvements in contexts of adversity. Speaker: Rochelle Burgess, University College London Discussant: Philipa Mladovsky, LSE Chair: Laura Mann, LSE

Professor Ha-Joon Chang and Professor James Putzel discuss the state of the world economy. Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang , SOAS Chair:  James Putzel, LSE

Dirk-Jan Koch and Clare Short discuss Dirk-Jan Koch's new book ' Foreign aid and its unintended consequences ' (Open access).  Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. Speaker: Dirk-Jan Ko...

This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise. Fibre optic internet cables have now connected almost every part of the world into a giant web of networks. Pundits once claimed this infrastructure would allow everyone to raise her voice, speak her mind, learn from others and hold authorities to account. A decade on...

National and global approaches to climate change alleviation are very inadequate because they ignore the important role played by wealth, income and consumption inequalities. Reducing these will be essential for humanity to meet the climate change — and there are feasible ways to do this. Speaker Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since...

Development studies frames food and fuel riots as the crowd response to the stimulus of price changes, as indicators of impact of economic shocks or policy reforms. In this dashboard view of the world, the masses respond automatically to spikes in the price of gas or bread, sending signals to governments and the international community that inflation is out of control, and Something Must Be Done....

This presentation explores the impact of the pandemic on workers across four key sectors of the Palestinian economy: health, education, agriculture, and construction. As with elsewhere around the world, Palestinian workers have experienced multiple challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated mitigation measures. In the occupied Palestinian territories however, it unfolded in the con...

Economics and science fiction share many interrelations that are rarely recognised. Firstly, a lot of economics is science fiction. Many economists believe in the fiction that they are practising ‘science’, while many also believe in the fiction that progress in ‘science’ (and thus technology) is the solution to virtually all economic problems. Saying that much of economics is science fiction does...

Isabella Weber on How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series. 

Lise Grande on Reflections on Peacebuilding in Today's World. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series. 

Irungu Houghton on Human rights organising in Africa during a global pandemic: Trends and Insights. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Tasneem Essop on Outcomes of COP26 and where next on Climate? The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Terhas Clark and Mosharraf Hossain on Disability, Development, Rights and Inclusion. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series. 

Ingrid Srinath on COVID-19, Corporatisation and Closing Space: The Triple Threat to Civil Society in India. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Agnes Kalibata on Paradigm shifts in food systems. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Jayati Ghosh on Access to vaccines and the limiting role of intellectual property rights and pharma monopolies. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series. 

Mushtaq Khan on Making Anti-Corruption Effective: A New Approach. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Clare Short on What's wrong with Aid? The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Guest lecturer, Gabriel Palma joins us to talk to us about "Why the Rich Stay Rich (no matter what)". The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Ha-Joon Chang on The Political Economy of Parasite (the movie). The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Antonio Giustozzi, Deniz Kandiyoti, Graeme Smith, Pashtana Durrani and Dr. Orzala Nemat guest lecture panel on The implosion of the Afghan State: what next for women and the nation? The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Guest lecturer, Mariana Mazzucato joins us from London to talk to us about "A Mission Oriented Approach to Stakeholder Value". The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.

Guest lecturer, Kate Raworth joins us from Oxford to talk to us about "Doughnut Economics: turning a radical idea into irresistible practice.". The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.