Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 9/2020

Meanings of development

Buen Vivir

The good life

The indigenous development concept of Buen Vivir aims to ensure material, social and spiritual satisfaction for all

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

Despite under-performing governance, Kenya is still a donor darling

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

Conventional ODA has often proved counterproductive, but there are alternative approaches

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Our view

The crucial development challenge

To achieve the SDGs, humankind needs strong and competent institutions at national as well as supranational levels

Participation

Valuable resource

New book about participatory methods in development projects has the makings of a standard

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

When people are displaced to make room for large-scale development projects, the trauma and impoverishment are real and long-lasting

Global trends

In urgent need of development

If Africa is not to fall behind further, the continent must develop fast

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

For environmental reasons, western Europe and North America cannot be models of development

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

The term “development” makes false promises and perpetuates colonial dominance thinking

Gender

Changing stereotypes

In spite of various global assessments, many Pakistani women do not think anything is wrong with gender relations in their countries

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

Why stereotyped ideas of developed and developing nations are not helpful

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

UNDP chief explains how the concepts of “human development” and “sustainable development” are converging