Is Social Media a New Frontier for Marginalised Communities to Challenge Old Power? The Flint Water Tragedy, and the Power of Place-Based Digital Activism
This is the second of a four-part Global Policy blog series that…
Ukraine: How an Armed Conflict Could Play Out
Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described…
New and Old Power: A New Way to Understand and Cultivate Digitally-Mediated Activism, or Just Another Framework?
This is the first of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks…
Deaths vs. The Economy: An Unexpected Reversal
Branko Milanovic explores rich and poor countries’ frequently…
Leveraging Gender Responsive Budgeting to Improve Gender Equality
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that sufficient gender disaggregated data…
Columnists
The decarbonization ideals underlying the Green New Deal provide the only realistic way to halt…
Branko Milanovic explores rich and poor countries’ frequently differing attitudes to lockdowns and…
I will try to imitate my colleague @milescorak who nicely summarized his work and readings in…
Branko Milanovic on the former Yugoslavia's private sector Christmases.
A week ago, a friend…
Localization offers the means to return to a real and stable economy not based on speculation,…
Scott Montgomery offers a questioning homage to the evolutionist E.O. Wilson who died on…
C. J. Polychroniou argues that the global spread of authoritarian populism and undermining of…
Opinion and Analysis
This is the second of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of…
Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “…
I sat down recently with Ayesha Khan, who works with the Collective for Social Science…
This is the first of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking…
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that sufficient gender disaggregated data is available in Pakistan, the…
Josh Ettinger on the power and pitfalls of using satire to change the narrative.
The…
“We were so hopeful last March when the UN Open-Ended Working Group agreed to endorse all 11 of us…
Essays
Over one and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Tech and big-data driven technologies…
Post conflict peacebuilding activities generate the hope for fresh opportunities, access to…
COVID-19 has lent a fresh lease of life to local production initiatives particularly in Africa. In…
Reviews
States, Markets, and Foreign Aid by Simone Dietrich. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN:…
Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law by…
Branko Milanovic explores the life of the enigmatic economist through a recent book on his…