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The IDS Bulletin is the flagship publication of the Institute of Development Studies, UK, which is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. With its over 40 year history the Bulletin has a unique reputation for intellectually rigorous articles on emerging and evolving development issues presented in an accessible manner, and has become one of the leading journals in its field through engaged scholarship between academic and policy communities in the North and the South. It brings together the latest cutting-edge thinking and research from programmes and events involving the IDS community and presents them to an audience of development practitioners, policymakers and researchers.

The IDS also produces a separate series of Working and Practice Papers, and Research Reports, in-house.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: The MDGs and Beyond
Volume 41, ISSUE 1, 2010

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A Case for Surfacing Theories of Change for Purposeful Organisational Capacity Development
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?
Sue Soal

Access the below articles on the Millennium Development Goals

The Development of Development Thinking
Osvaldo Sunkel
Theme: Evolution of development thinking over the last 25 years

UN Reform: Focus for Action
Richard Jolly
Theme: Goals for reduction of poverty in the next ten years

Are Poverty and Social Goals for the 21st Century Attainable?
Lionel Demery and Michael Walton
Theme: Prospects for countries attaining two IDGs* by 2015 International Development Goals

Major Additional Funding for the MDGs: A Mixed Blessing for Capacity Development
Ole Therkildsen
Theme: Do "fast-growing funding" and "ambitious time-bound targets" only add to the challenges for LDCs?

Poverty, Social Exclusion and the MDGs: The Challenge of "Durable Inequalities" in the Asian Context
Naila Kabeer
Theme: Understanding the social dimensions of inequality by examing relevance to MDG concerns with poverty, health and education