Finding hope amongst the gridlock

As this year’s UNDP Human Development Report explores, the world is in dangerous gridlock resulting from “uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating political polarization”. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is slow, and the ambition of the Paris Agreement feels like a distant memory.

These are major challenges for the United Nations and for the broader development community to tackle. What can we learn from the history of development about ideas that can still change the world, and which can give us reason for hope?

In this event to mark the 90th birthday of Richard Jolly, Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies and former UN Assistant Secretary General, we will explore the past – and the future – of sustainable human development.

Richard was the second Director of IDS from 1972 to 1981 and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF for 13 years, and is renowned as one of the key thinkers in the field of development.

• Raphie Kaplinsky, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
• Richard Jolly, Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies
• Melissa Leach, former Director, Institute of Development Studies
• Mariz Tadros, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
• Stephany Griffith-Jones, Deputy Governor at Central Bank of Chile and Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Peter Taylor, Acting Director, Institute of Development Studies)

This event is in-person only.

Host or Publisher Institute of Development Studies