By Julia Day After a simmering row between the US and Kenya at the start of the 8th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade conference in Nairobi this week,…
CLINTON: AFRICA WILL BE WORLD’S BREADBASKET
VIDEO: MANIFESTO SEMINAR – DR GEHL SAMPATH
Have a look at a short clip of Padmashree Gehl Sampath’s STEPS Centre Manifesto seminar on ‘Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development’ as part of the Innovation,…
LIQUID DYNAMICS AT WORLD WATER WEEK
The STEPS Centre is holding an event at World Water Week in Stockholm this month, entitled Liquid Dynamics: Rethinking Sustainability in Water and Action. Our side event examines the concept…
COPENHAGEN: IS TIME RUNNING OUT?
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The international climate change meeting in Copenhagen this December will attempt to formulate a post-Kyoto agreement. But with less than five months to go,…
BLOG FROM THE WORLD CONGRESS ON HEALTH ECONOMICS, BEIJING
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member ‘Harmonising health and economics’ sounds like a tall order, nonetheless it is the title of this year’s World Congress on Health Economics being held…
BLOG FROM THE SCIENCE FORUM 2009
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Former STEPS member Dominic Glover was blogging earlier this week for The Broker from the Science Forum 2009, in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Dominic, now…
TWITTER & THE IRANIAN UPRISING
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Like many, I have been following recent events in Iran with interest. The use of social media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc) via mobile and…
KILLER DUST: NEW ASBESTOS REPORT
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member STEPS member Linda Waldman has co-aurthored a new academic report commissioned by construction union UCATT. Linda and Heather Williams have uncovered huge deficiencies in…
MANIFESTO SEMINAR: DR. PADMASHREE GEHL SAMPATH ON IP
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from this event (Flickr link) We’re delighted to have Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University with us today to…
A NEW MANIFESTO: STUDENT ROUNDTABLE REPORT
By ELISA AROND, Research Assistant for the Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project A group of students and Visiting Fellows gathered at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton…