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Branko Milanovic explores a recent paper that argues US market income inequality is generally greater than in other rich countries and that the American state …
Rufus Pollock argues that the software, algorithms and protocols on which the tech giants run should be made open and free for anyone to use.
Google’s recent record €4.3 billion…
Astha Kapoor explores Rohingya refugees' fight for their entitlements and the story of their digital identity in India.
The discussion of digital identity for refugees has been…
The role of developing countries in the global economy via embeddedness in Global Value Chains (GVC) is increasing, but their ability to become innovation leaders is less certain…
Book Review – The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe: Energy Security, Contested Technologies and the Social Licence to Frack by Andreas Goldthau. Cambridge: Cambridge…
50.50 spent a fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at the International Conference on Men’s Issues, organised at an undisclosed location in London.
Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs…
Antonio Savoia and David Hulme explore what we know and what we should ask next about developmental convergence.
Research on global development progress during the Millennium…
All eyes are on Johannesburg for the 2018 BRICS summit, as the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi take their places at the table. It marks the tenth annual…
Hsiao-Hung Pai introduces some of the arguments and insights from her latest book: Bordered Lives: How Europe Fails Refugees and Migrants, published on 18 January by New…
This month brings the tenth summit of the fast-growing BRICs nations – Brazil, Russia, India, and China and South Africa. But does the label still hold given the countries'…