As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated.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.
Making research on globalisation work for the poor: a commentary on Adrian Wood ‘Making globalisation work for the poor: the 2000 White Paper reconsidered’
Making research on globalisation work for the poor: a commentary on Adrian Wood ‘Making globalisation work for the poor: the 2000 White Paper reconsidered’, Journal of International Development, Volume 16, Issue 7, 2003
Adrian Wood is right to note a significant shift in official thinking since the publication in 2000 of the DFIDDepartment for International Development White Paper on globalization. This is confirmed by the 2004 White Paper on the same subject, published by the Department for Trade and Industry: there is more emphasis on the institutional pre-conditions for successful liberalization, more on the specificity of individual country experience, more on the plight of losers, and more on the need for social protection. These themes are important and require some re-thinking of aid policy................. (see link in title for full article)