Geof Wood

Dr Geof Wood is a development anthropologist and author of several books and numerous journal articles, with a regional focus on South Asia. He is also emeritus professor of international development at the University of Bath.

Two cats in the yard

We move into 2025 with many heightened uncertainties.

2d ago

A new deal for Bangladesh-UK partnership in uncertain times

Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.

3m ago

A blueprint for reforms: Tackling corruption, inequality, and autocracy

The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.

4m ago

Surrealism and dark arts: Leaving citizens behind

Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.

6m ago

A review of My Golden Bengal: A serious book for serious times

A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for 'My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society.'

7m ago

Is the family farm disappearing?

The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.

8m ago

Dealing with climate change in a capitalist world

Why we should care about remote others in time and space.

8m ago

The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh

While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.

10m ago
October 26, 2018
October 26, 2018

Extreme poverty: Special measures or solved by growth?

In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.

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