Reading Development

Random readings on society, politics and change – Jorge Carrillo

A living income for the informal workers in the waste sector

Despite their indispensable role, informal workers often remain undervalued and underpaid in many nations. This study underscores the critical importance of recognizing waste workers and providing them with a living … Continue reading

Thursday, 28 March 2024 · Leave a comment

15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review

In academia and political debates, the notions of ‘degrowth’ has gained traction since the dawn of the 21st century. While some uncertainty around its exact definition remains, research on degrowth … Continue reading

Monday, 25 March 2024 · Leave a comment

2024 State of Civil Society Report

Civil society is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises. Amid growing conflict and repression, in 2023 civil society faced mounting obstacles that made … Continue reading

Tuesday, 19 March 2024 · Leave a comment

The World Wide Web of Work

Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the … Continue reading

Monday, 18 March 2024 · Leave a comment

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. … Continue reading

Monday, 18 March 2024 · Leave a comment

Economic growth will not be sufficient to end global poverty – New projections

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to … Continue reading

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 · Leave a comment

Geographies of Exclusion: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai

A rich seam of waste scholarship already addresses the exclusion faced by informal waste workers as cities in the global South undergo spatial transformations to become ‘world class’. However, less … Continue reading

Friday, 22 September 2023 · Leave a comment

Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action … Continue reading

Monday, 18 September 2023 · Leave a comment

From Multiple Deprivations to Exploitation: Politicizing the Multidimensional Poverty Index

The overarching point is that, absent a serious consideration of how to go about doing so, there is a risk that interventions targeting particular deprivations or clusters will wind up … Continue reading

Monday, 11 September 2023 · Leave a comment