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Geof Wood
Dr Geof Wood is a development anthropologist and author of several books and numerous journal articles, with a regional focus on South Asia. He is also emeritus professor of international development at the University of Bath.
Dr Geof Wood is a development anthropologist and author of several books and numerous journal articles, with a regional focus on South Asia. He is also emeritus professor of international development at the University of Bath.
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
"Policy" as an institutional process is a nebulous mixture of concepts, thinking, ideology, values, pragmatism, interests and, hopefully, evidence: prior, during, and afterwards.
In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
"Policy" as an institutional process is a nebulous mixture of concepts, thinking, ideology, values, pragmatism, interests and, hopefully, evidence: prior, during, and afterwards.
In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.