From Poverty to Power

I talk you through two weeks (eight posts) including: Podcast on China and Corruption; Multi-dimensional Poverty; Covid and the climate crisis; Links I Liked; empowerment and accountability in fragile/messy places; the emotional chemistry of rebellion; LSE's thinkers on development; how to be a good ancestor

Yuen Yuen Ang discusses her new book on how the 'right kind' of corruption has created growth on steroids in China, what it tells us about the nature of capitalism, and what the future might hold

Links I Liked; women in Lockdown India; Covid and Inequality; Corruption in China; Activism under the Coronavirus

Open Society's Covid Scenarios; Some (mixed) progress on localization of humanitarian and advocacy; lessons of a democratic triumph in Malawi; how youth movements are stepping up on Covid in Africa

A Covid Research Agenda; Anti Racist Resource List for Aid; Links I Liked; How History Shapes Covid Responses; Deepak Nayyar on his new book, Resurgent Asia

Deepak Nayyar Podcast by From Poverty to Power

Links I Liked; Aid, Development & Racism; The DFID-FCO merger; Transforming Oxfam and International NGOs; Civil Society Organizations and the Pandemic

Danny Sriskandarajah, Oxfam GB's CEO, discusses the organization's current upheaval, the eventual transformation he seeks, and the wider challenges facing International NGOs.

Links I Liked; The Drawbacks of Online Activism; Are we living in a rubbish remake of the Matrix?; Will Patents stop Covid drugs saving lives? Re-imagining aid.

Links I Liked; Power in the Pandemic; Beyond the Western Gaze; Decolonizing Development Research; Thinking and Working Politically with Technology