DSA Bulletin - February/March edition now available for download

DSA's February-March 2010 bulletin is now available to download in PDF.

Oxfam Consultation on the Global Economic Crisis - have your say!

Since late 2008, Oxfam has been analysing the impact of the global economic crisis on poverty and poor communities, and the way governments and others have responded. This research has now been pulled together in a draft paper, The Global Economic Crisis and Developing Countries: Impact and Response, by Duncan Green, Richard King, and May Miller Dawkins.

Oxfam is opening a consultation process for this paper, inviting public comments and feedbackfrom 27th Jan - 26th Feb 2010. To download the paper, and for more information on how you can participate in the consultation process, visit Duncan Green's blog.

Discounted journal subscriptions for DSA Members from Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell have kindly added more journals to their list of discounted subscriptions for DSA Members. For a full list, please visit our Journals Publication pages.

Dates for your Diary

A note for your diaries on dates for our forthcoming Annual Conferences:

• 2010 - at Church House, Westminster on Friday 5th November 2010. Visit our Annual Conference page.
• 2011 - we are hosting EADI's 13th General Conference in the UK in 2011 so are combining our Conferences for what we hope will be the largest gathering of development studies researchers, practitioners and policy makers from around the world. The event will be held between Monday September 19th and 22nd 2011. More details to follow in the New Year.

The DSA Secretariat has moved offices

The DSA Secretariat moved offices - our new telephone number is 0845 519 3372.

The postal address remains the same.

If anything is urgent, please contact us by email.

Journal of International Development accepted for coverage in ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index

The DSA has great pleasure in announcing that its journal - the Journal of International Development, published by Wiley-Blackwell - has been accepted for coverage under the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index.

They will start coverage with the current volume, so the first official Impact Factor will be the 2011 Impact Factor (counting citations made in 2011 to papers published in 2009 and 2010). This will be released in June 2012.

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Research in Economic Field Research or Short Stories of Dependency

Ethics in Economic Field Research or Short Stories of Dependency

Irene Sotiropoulou
PhD Student (University of Crete, Department of Economics)

This paper has been prepared within the framework of the student’s PhD programme under the supervision of Prof. George Stathakis.

An earlier version of this paper has been presented at the 1st Conference of the Academic Society for Political Economy, co-organised (19-20.06.2009) with the 11th Conference of Greek Historians of Economic Thought, titled “Economic Crisis and Economic Theory” and held in Rethymnon (Gallos University Campus), Greece.

Email for correspondence: isotiropoulou@econ.soc.uoc.gr

Blog on Moral Economy

Wendy Olsen's BLOG for DSA conference related to new and old institutionalisms:
Moral Economy and How Economics is Changing

China and Development Study Group launch

Report on the rountable event of the Development Studies Association ‘China and Development’ Study Group.

Publicise Your Policy Relevant Research

If you have policy relevant research you want to disseminate to a global audience, why not submit to Policy Pointers? A weekly email alert is sent out to subscribers with selected publications. Ideal for Policy Briefs as well as longer reports. To find out more about what Policy Pointers have to say, read the full article.

Policy Forum 2009: After 2015

A wealth of outputs from this event - papers, think pieces, videos and blogs - can be found on the Euforic site and The Broker. Do add to the discussions and download any material that may be of relevance to your work.

Euforic Website for papers, think pieces and videos.

The Broker website for blogs and videos.

The Role of Higher Education in Development

A new spotlight from SciDev.Net, What role for higher education in development? , examines higher education's role in achieving development goals with a series of articles and commentaries written by experts. These set the context of the debate, examine the roles of aid agencies, outline the opportunities and hurdles facing policymakers on the ground and highlight case studies showing how external support can generate tangible results.

A background article, Funding for higher education: facts and figures, describes the changes in donor funding for higher education in developing countries over the last 50 years. In recent years, higher education has returned to the aid agendas of major donors. There is now greater acceptance amongst the development community of the economic benefits of higher education, which include creating public knowledge, exchanging skills between industry and academia and developing better technology.

DFID Research Strategy Implementation

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European Development Policy: A Response to the Crisis Affecting Globalisation

European Development Policy: A Response to the Crisis Affecting Globalisation
This 14-page French essay is intended to provide a fresh overview of the goals and particularities of European development cooperation, looking at progress made in recent years, as well as the outlook for the future, against the backdrop of the crisis currently affecting globalisation.