The decline in Indonesia’s middle class is particularly concerning given the government’s long-term development plans, which focus on expanding this demographic to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. The middle class is central to the government’s strategy.
Doctor shortage, poor infrastructure, long wait times (especially for women), high diagnostic costs and extensive travel for treatment…all of these results in avoidable deaths and high mortality rate in rural India. According to the Lancet (2015), more than 2,000 primary health centers in India were operated without a doctor and more than 5,000 have no pharmacist.
Concerted efforts and clear pathways are therefore needed to ensure that the implementation of the SDGs is kept on course.
Recently, an undergraduate engineering student from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) in Bangladesh showed me his mobile app…
In December 2015, World Trade Organization (WTO) attracted attentions again.
In his Global Development seminar last week, Professor David Hulme asked: Are the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the world’s biggest promise or just another development fad?
The cotton industry in Zimbabwe is in crisis. World market prices have collapsed, and the liberalised contract system, where numerous companies compete with each other, is failing.
Take the first SDG, ending poverty in all its forms everywhere. We start to have a pretty good idea of the things which need to be done to achieve it.
It appears in the ‘short books for big ideas’ agrarian and peasant studies series, and tries to offer a readable overview of the key debates, as well as suggesting important new directions.
There was much discussion about small-scale and artisanal mining at the STEPS Centre’s Resource Politics conference last month.
