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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…
Including persons with disabilities in emergency responses is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian actors.
As discussed in the first article of this series,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Scientists are known for making dramatic predictions about the future – and sinister robotsare once again in the spotlight now that artificial intelligence has become a marketing…
In a speech in Hong Kong ahead of the 2018 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Spring Meetings, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called on policymakers to steer clear of…
Britain has an ignoble history of exploiting Caribbean people when they were ‘useful’, then casting them aside as insufficiently ‘British’ when they were not.
Recent reports of…
The nature of conflicts in the 21st century is characterized first and foremost by the influence of global factors on an unprecedented scale. The softening of political…