Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 April 2018
Illiberal democracy – or populism – is not the only political menace confronting Western countries. Liberal democracy is also being undermined by a tendency to emphasize “liberal…
25 April 2018
ESRC GPID Director and Global Policy's Deputy Executive Editor, Andy Sumner, continues the discussion of a model of economic development from the 1950s and shows how it…
24 April 2018
As the US, Russia and China test each other’s patience and strategic focus, speculation about the chances of a world war has hit a new high. But many of the people seriously…
24 April 2018
To mark last month's International Women's Day, Professor Naila Kabeer looks back over the history of feminist economics and outlines her reasons why it matters for the future. 1…
23 April 2018
Tristan Kenderdine examines the growing dependency of global industrial output on Chinese policy and the risks this holds for a global trade perspective. Ahead of the Astana…
23 April 2018
Over the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve probably looked at more examples of government innovation than anyone else in the world. That’s not an exaggeration: I’ve written more…
23 April 2018
Including persons with disabilities in emergency responses is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian actors. As discussed in the first article of this series,…
20 April 2018
Over the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve probably looked at more examples of government innovation than anyone else in the world. That’s not an exaggeration: I’ve written more…
20 April 2018
Naomi Potter explores the difficulty of defining Eurocentrism during a research research project. Shortly after completing our first year at LSE, a group of undergraduate…
20 April 2018
ESRC GPID Director and Global Policy's Deputy Executive Editor, Andy Sumner, takes a look at a model of economic development from the 1950s that he argues is highly relevant to…