As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
International Development Targets - focusing policy or measuring results?
International Development Targets - focusing policy or measuring results? in Alliance Magazine 5:3, June 2000
The International Development Targets (IDTs) are – well, as one might imagine, they’re a set of targets for international development: reduce poverty, achieve universal primary education, cut infant mortality, and so on. They’re also, and this is more interesting, the instruments of an ambitious political project to refocus the international development effort................. (see link in title for full article)