- As noted in last Friday's India links, India is marking three years since its last reported polio case, a landmark in the global battle against the disease. This BBC story on India's success in combating polio also has an interesting pictorial history of the disease.
- The World Bank's Global Economic Prospects and the implications for Pacific Island countries: Jemima Garrett interviews Robert Utz from the World Bank.
- Interesting lessons from the Center for Global Development on their first 13 years.
- The politics of global inequality: Andrew Norton from the UK's Overseas Development Institute suggests that global inequality will accelerate and points to the creation of a global tax system as a possible policy response.
- 'Good Enough to Eat', Oxfam UK's new food index, provides an interactive snapshot of where countries rank in terms of quality, affordability, consumption, and health.
- Erik Solheim, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, opines on the value and future of official development assistance here and here (paywalled). Solheim's op-eds come in the midst of Global Policy's online debate on future of aid in an era of global convergence.
- In this new Working Paper from the Institute of Development Studies, Jon Moris argues the development community (and the world) remain ill-equipped to respond effectively to rapid change and complexity. He suggests 13 changes needed to 'rebalance society', including refashioning aid, taming feral capital, emphasising fair trade, and rebuilding community leadership.
- Last week we linked to a whydev.org blog post on 'the myth of the field', which was inadvertently attributed to @viewfromthecave rather than @TalesFromthHood. Apologies. Both are worth following for those of you on Twitter.
Aid & development links: Convergence, global inequality, polio and more
Published 20 Jan 2014
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