The sharpening poverty contradictions and their links to a larger governance reality is the theme of this book. Enhanced understanding of the security and human rights situation in South Asia has also led to identification of alternative possibilities for innovative policy at both the micro and...

Ponna Wignaraja, former Secretary General of the Society for International Development (SID) looks at when SID began to redefine its mission as development in broader terms in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He argues that we need a constructive critique of the past and re-visioning the...

Ponna Wignaraja looks at the new directions that are being sought to solve what is seen as a worsening crisis in how the needs of the poor are being addressed. Development (2004) 47, 115–117. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100023