Blogs

'Sometimes it seems that researchers and policy makers live in parallel universes. Researchers cannot understand why there is resistance to policy change despite clear and convincing evidence'.

'Chronic poverty is not simply about having a low income. It is about multi-dimensional deprivation: being hungry, being poorly nourished, having access only to dirty drinking water, not being literate, having no access to health services and being...

'Think-tanks need to work together across national boundaries if they are to influence policy-making internationally. ODI is helping to pioneer a new way of doing this, using a model known as "policy code-sharing"'.'

'Donor governments do not always seem to recognise poverty and suffering as a denial of human rights that they are obliged to address – through development assistance, humanitarian action or otherwise'.

'Playing a word association game with 'rural India' typically generates images of 'tradition', 'poverty', 'caste hierarchy' and 'stagnation'. Such associations remain partly valid, but things are changing...