By Nathan Oxley, STEPS Communications Assistant The STEPS Centre is mentioned twice in the beautifully interactive Annual Report of the Institute of Development Studies. The Knowledge, Technology and Society section of the report cites our New Manifesto project, and Kamal Kar is quoted on our 2011 Water Symposium. The report’s a good way of getting…
WE’RE IN THE IDS ANNUAL REPORT
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: AN INDICATOR OF GREATER SHIFTS
By Hayley MacGregor, STEPS Centre member The UN High-level Summit on Non-communicable Diseases now underway comes at an important moment for the development community. With just over 50 per cent of the world now living in cities, and with the percentage of the global population over 60 years of age expected to double by 2050,…
TOP 10 POSTS OF ALL TIME
I’ve been looking at the most-viewed posts on the blog since we started in January 2007 (with a post on pro-poor rice farming). It’s interesting to see how the blog’s developed since then, with a growing number of contributors, from visiting fellows and partners to speakers at our events. A good number of the Top…