Simon Maxwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Maxwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxwell |
| SIGNATURE | MAXWELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Overseas Development Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8938-7237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Environmental and Stratigraphic Bias in the Hominin Fossil Record
Comparisons between the hominin or Neogene mammal fossil record and contemporaneous paleoclimate proxies have been commonplace since the pioneering studies of Elisabeth Vrba (1980, 1992, 1995a, 1995b). Vrba combined the new macroevolutionary theories of punctuated equilibrium and species selection (e.g., Eldredge and Gould, 1972; Vrba, 1985b) with emerging evidence for global climate change in the Plio-Pleistocene (e.g., Shackleton et al., 1990) …
Candidates undertaking (invigilated) assessment online show no differences in performance compared to those undertaking assessment offline
BACKGROUND: Medical education has historically relied on high stakes knowledge tests sat in examination centres with invigilators monitoring academic malpractice. The COVID-19 pandemic has made such examination formats impossible, and medical educators have explored the use of online assessments as a potential replacement. This shift has in turn led to fears that the change in format or academic malpractice might lead to considerably higher attai…
Avoiding an unintentional space war
The realm of outer space is becoming increasingly crowded and more contested – conditions that increase the risk that a conflict could arise. Given that there has never been a war in space, countries have little experience to draw upon to predict what behavior might motivate a potential competitor to respond with threatening actions – and how quickly and in what manner those actions could escalate to a full-blown conflict. To help control this si…
Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South
This IDS Bulletin is an oddity: a publication by an institute specialising in developing countries, which consists almost entirely of papers about developed countries. There is a justification, however. It lies in the rapid growth in writing about a new concept, 'social exclusion'. Despite some pioneering work by the International Institute of Labour Studies on social exclusion in the South2, most writing on social exclusion has been in and about…
Comparisons, Convergence and Connections
My mission is to explore the issues of poverty and social exclusion across the boundary between developed and developing countries. Put briskly, the thesis is that increasing attention to poverty and social exclusion (PSE) in the North opens the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South, on three questions of successively greater depth. First, are there new comparisons, or lessons to be drawn across geographical boundaries, about th…
How to Help Reform Multilateral Institutions
Dissension over Iraq in 2003 challenged the legitimacy and effectiveness of the UN. It also highlighted long-standing problems that previous UN institutional reform efforts had failed to resolve. Kofi Annan has been a reforming secretary-general, but even he acknowledged in September 2003 that the core UN institutions needed radical (1) The High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change was the response: (2) wide-ranging, certainly; radical, …
Debate
Negotiation as simultaneous equation
The value–added of a new partnership with Africa lies precisely in the opportunity to manage and to give impetus to relations and negotiations across a whole range of issues—conflict management, trade, debt relief, and aid—taken together rather than separately. Partnership, however, is not a new concept, in general or in development, and there are different models on offer. This article reviews these and sets out the choices facing new African pa…
Rethinking Rural Development
Rural development has been central to the development effort, but rural poverty persists and funding is falling: a new narrative is needed. This overview article describes a Washington Consensus on Food, Agriculture and Rural Development, and summarises from the various contributions here the elements of a post‐Washington Consensus. Rural areas are changing, particularly with respect to demography, diversification, and strengthening links to nati…
International Targets for Poverty Reduction and Food Security
Summaries International development targets adopted by UN Conferences provide political impetus, focus expenditure and help in monitoring progress. However, simple targets can misrepresent complex realities and distort policy. Monitoring targets can have a high opportunity cost. Political impetus can be lost if targets are over?ambitious. Food security illustrates the uses of targets and the risks involved. Simple hunger or nutrition targets have…
Saucy with the Gods
Comparisons, Convergence and Connections
Increasing poverty and social exclusion (PSE) open up the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South on three issues of successively greater depth: first, new comparisons or lessons to be drawn across geographical boundaries about the characteristics, causes and remedies of PSE. Second, the implications of a new convergence between North and South. And third, the possibility of a new theory to expose connections between PSE in North …
International Targets for Poverty Reduction and Food Security
Summaries International development targets adopted by UN Conferences provide political impetus, focus expenditure and help in monitoring progress. However, simple targets can misrepresent complex realities and distort policy. Monitoring targets can have a high opportunity cost. Political impetus can be lost if targets are over?ambitious. Food security illustrates the uses of targets and the risks involved. Simple hunger or nutrition targets have…
Implementing the World Food Summit Plan of Action
A charter for food security
Practical Notes
Based on 'The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation'. The author describes and assesses the use of matrix-scoring as a participatory evaluation tool. Often used as part of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) arsenal of tools, here the author applies it specifically to evaluating the performance of the European Community/European Union (EC/EU) in the provision of aid to Ethiopia between 1976 and 19…
Food security
Apples, Pears and Poverty Reduction
1 Introduction' 'Does Aid Work?' was a good question when Cassen et al. (1985) first asked it in the mid 1980s; and it remains a good question today In the current aid context, however, dominated since 1990 by the 'new poverty agenda' (World Bank 1990, Lipton and
Catch the Tiger by its Tail
Summaries Counterpart funds generated by programme aid do not provide real resources over and above the commodities or foreign exchange transferred as aid: they represent the tail not the tiger. However, donor policy has evolved to recognise this fact and now focuses less on specific ear?marking of counterpart funds, more on the overall quality of the budget process. This development opens up new and more interesting possibilities for evaluating …
Food, Food Security and Un Reform
The article addresses the question of UN reform from the perspective of food security. It offers a balance sheet of UN strengths and weaknesses, praising the UN role in advocacy, technical coordination and resource mobilization, but identifying serious politico?bureaucratic problems, and new challenges to the UN mandate caused by the coexistence of hunger and conflict. In understanding why the weaknesses occur, there are useful connections to be …
The monetization of project and emergency food aid
Linking Relief and Development
Linking relief and development' is one description of this idea. Others include the 'relief-development continuum', the 'interface between relief and development', 'relief-development strategies' and 'famine mitigation'
Linking Relief and Development
The idea of linking relief and development (LRD) is immediately attractive in Ethiopia, where 27 million people, 55 per cent of the population, are food insecure, and where the cost of relief has exceeded the equivalent of one third of government revenue in drought years. LRD is indeed central to government policy, notably in the National Policy on Disaster Prevention and Management. Though practice lags behind policy, progress is being made, for…
Regional food security strategies
Neglected Issues in the Counterpart Fund Debate
The article reviews the current conventional wisdom on counterpart funds and discusses four neglected issues: sectoral and commodity disaggregation; inter?annual variability; fiscal and import dependence; and absorptive capacity and disincentives. It concludes that new guidelines should focus more on the development function of counterpart funds; pay more attention to inter?annual calibration; and monitor sectoral policy as well as public expendi…
Food security
Cash crops in developing countries
Food aid to developing countries
Linking Relief and Development
Linking relief and development' is one description of this idea. Others include the 'relief-development continuum', the 'interface between relief and development', 'relief-development strategies' and 'famine mitigation'
Farming systems research
Food Security in Developing Countries
21 u, 3. tutt,, teof Deselepntcrtt Stttdju., Sus'rs 2 deal not only with substance but also with planning issues. Between them, these papers, by Hindle (for the World Bank), Kennes (for the European Community), Huddleston (for FAO) and Dearden and Cassidy (for 'Food security' is one of those terms -'rural development ' [Chambers 1983:146] and 'farming systems research ' [Merill Sands 1986] are otherswhich authors feel obliged to define or redefin…
Food aid for supplementary feeding programmes
Negotiation as simultaneous equation
The value–added of a new partnership with Africa lies precisely in the opportunity to manage and to give impetus to relations and negotiations across a whole range of issues—conflict management, trade, debt relief, and aid—taken together rather than separately. Partnership, however, is not a new concept, in general or in development, and there are different models on offer. This article reviews these and sets out the choices facing new African pa…
Comparisons, Convergence and Connections
Increasing poverty and social exclusion (PSE) open up the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South on three issues of successively greater depth: first, new comparisons or lessons to be drawn across geographical boundaries about the characteristics, causes and remedies of PSE. Second, the implications of a new convergence between North and South. And third, the possibility of a new theory to expose connections between PSE in North …
Catch the Tiger by its Tail
Summaries Counterpart funds generated by programme aid do not provide real resources over and above the commodities or foreign exchange transferred as aid: they represent the tail not the tiger. However, donor policy has evolved to recognise this fact and now focuses less on specific ear?marking of counterpart funds, more on the overall quality of the budget process. This development opens up new and more interesting possibilities for evaluating …
Regional food security strategies
International Targets for Poverty Reduction and Food Security
Summaries International development targets adopted by UN Conferences provide political impetus, focus expenditure and help in monitoring progress. However, simple targets can misrepresent complex realities and distort policy. Monitoring targets can have a high opportunity cost. Political impetus can be lost if targets are over?ambitious. Food security illustrates the uses of targets and the risks involved. Simple hunger or nutrition targets have…
A charter for food security
Apples, Pears and Poverty Reduction
1 Introduction' 'Does Aid Work?' was a good question when Cassen et al. (1985) first asked it in the mid 1980s; and it remains a good question today In the current aid context, however, dominated since 1990 by the 'new poverty agenda' (World Bank 1990, Lipton and
Linking Relief and Development
The idea of linking relief and development (LRD) is immediately attractive in Ethiopia, where 27 million people, 55 per cent of the population, are food insecure, and where the cost of relief has exceeded the equivalent of one third of government revenue in drought years. LRD is indeed central to government policy, notably in the National Policy on Disaster Prevention and Management. Though practice lags behind policy, progress is being made, for…
Food aid for supplementary feeding programmes
Tracing feeding programme drop-outs
Food aid to developing countries
Farming systems research
Workshop on food security in the Sudan
Cash crops in developing countries
Is Food Security Targeting Possible in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from North Sudan
Targeting food security interventions in sub?Saharan Africa presents special difficulties and has rarely been successful. A case study of Darfur in Western Sudan shows that targeting can be improved. The key is to focus not just on safeguarding current income and food consumption, but also on long term livelihood interventions that reduce vulnerability; and to do this with programmes which are geographically specific, self?targeting in administra…
Food Security in Developing Countries
21 u, 3. tutt,, teof Deselepntcrtt Stttdju., Sus'rs 2 deal not only with substance but also with planning issues. Between them, these papers, by Hindle (for the World Bank), Kennes (for the European Community), Huddleston (for FAO) and Dearden and Cassidy (for 'Food security' is one of those terms -'rural development ' [Chambers 1983:146] and 'farming systems research ' [Merill Sands 1986] are otherswhich authors feel obliged to define or redefin…
World hunger
Journal Article World hunger: 12 myths Get access World hunger: 12 myths. By Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins. London: Earthscan. 1988. 182pp. Index. Pb.: £5.95. ISBN 1 85385 012 7. Simon Maxwell Simon Maxwell 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 1990, Page 167, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622221 Published: 01 January 1990
Famine in Sudan
Regional food security strategies
Neglected Issues in the Counterpart Fund Debate
The article reviews the current conventional wisdom on counterpart funds and discusses four neglected issues: sectoral and commodity disaggregation; inter?annual variability; fiscal and import dependence; and absorptive capacity and disincentives. It concludes that new guidelines should focus more on the development function of counterpart funds; pay more attention to inter?annual calibration; and monitor sectoral policy as well as public expendi…
Counterpart Funds and Development
Counterpart funds play an important, growing and often controversial role in developing countries. The Bulletin reviews the issues and connects counterpart funds to wider themes in development: poverty targeting, aid conditionality, the management of the budgetary process — and many others. New guidelines are presented. The first priority is to narrow the gap between best and usual practice. Résumé Les fonds de contrepartie et le développement Le…
The monetization of project and emergency food aid
Linking Relief and Development
Linking relief and development' is one description of this idea. Others include the 'relief-development continuum', the 'interface between relief and development', 'relief-development strategies' and 'famine mitigation'
Linking Relief and Development
The idea of linking relief and development (LRD) is immediately attractive in Ethiopia, where 27 million people, 55 per cent of the population, are food insecure, and where the cost of relief has exceeded the equivalent of one third of government revenue in drought years. LRD is indeed central to government policy, notably in the National Policy on Disaster Prevention and Management. Though practice lags behind policy, progress is being made, for…
Food, Food Security and Un Reform
The article addresses the question of UN reform from the perspective of food security. It offers a balance sheet of UN strengths and weaknesses, praising the UN role in advocacy, technical coordination and resource mobilization, but identifying serious politico?bureaucratic problems, and new challenges to the UN mandate caused by the coexistence of hunger and conflict. In understanding why the weaknesses occur, there are useful connections to be …
Food security
Apples, Pears and Poverty Reduction
1 Introduction' 'Does Aid Work?' was a good question when Cassen et al. (1985) first asked it in the mid 1980s; and it remains a good question today In the current aid context, however, dominated since 1990 by the 'new poverty agenda' (World Bank 1990, Lipton and
Catch the Tiger by its Tail
Summaries Counterpart funds generated by programme aid do not provide real resources over and above the commodities or foreign exchange transferred as aid: they represent the tail not the tiger. However, donor policy has evolved to recognise this fact and now focuses less on specific ear?marking of counterpart funds, more on the overall quality of the budget process. This development opens up new and more interesting possibilities for evaluating …
Implementing the World Food Summit Plan of Action
A charter for food security
Practical Notes
Based on 'The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation'. The author describes and assesses the use of matrix-scoring as a participatory evaluation tool. Often used as part of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) arsenal of tools, here the author applies it specifically to evaluating the performance of the European Community/European Union (EC/EU) in the provision of aid to Ethiopia between 1976 and 19…
Saucy with the Gods
Comparisons, Convergence and Connections
Increasing poverty and social exclusion (PSE) open up the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South on three issues of successively greater depth: first, new comparisons or lessons to be drawn across geographical boundaries about the characteristics, causes and remedies of PSE. Second, the implications of a new convergence between North and South. And third, the possibility of a new theory to expose connections between PSE in North …
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