Questioning Development

On the Eldis site, there is a section on 'Questioning Development'. As the name suggests, the section highlights those occasional papers which cause a fuss in development circles, those which start a chain of debate or de-stabalise a current orthodoxy!

For example,

How would you spend 50 billion dollars? What would be the best ways of advancing global welfare (particularly the welfare of developing countries) supposing that an additional $50 billion of resources were at governments’ disposal? The Copenhagen Consensus process ranked 30 proposals. More...

Do sanctions work? The ethics, effectiveness and legality of sanctions are questioned due to the increasing evidence concerning their negative humanitarian impact and their frequent failure to bring about intended policy change. More..

The scorecard on globalization: Twenty years of diminished progress More..

Questioning environmental orthodoxy: Are fears about population, poverty and environmental degredation justified? More..