Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

04 October 2024
Cameron Boyle discusses the myriad challenges facing global health and the steps the UK Government must take to achieve health equity. We are living in an era of polycrisis.…
03 October 2024
This blog reflects on the academic writing experiences of early career researchers in East Africa, building on discussions and writing diaries developed in the context of a…
01 October 2024
Pouring billions into emergency projects without sufficient citizen input undermines effectiveness. The bad news remains relentless these days – from the devastating war in…
26 September 2024
Amal Chandra argues that India is no longer content with being a passive observer. Instead, it is now actively shaping the global order. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
25 September 2024
Veronika Bertram introduces the findings of a paper exploring the complexities of international insurance premium support for improving societies’ financial resilience to climate…
23 September 2024
The Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the Fund will be held in Washington DC the week of October 21 – 26, 2024. The BRICS+ summit will be held in Kazan, Russia, October 22 –…
20 September 2024
Global Policy's Tom Kirk in discussion with students, colleagues and practitioners on combining academic learning with practical work in the development sector.  As we approach…
19 September 2024
Emrys Schoemaker argues that we must recognize that DPI is as much about governing for outcomes as it is about technology per se. There is a striking addition to the newly…
17 September 2024
Steve Biko was undoubtedly the most influential South African liberation struggle theorist and activist of the 1970s. Rick Turner was arguably among the most effectual white anti-…
13 September 2024
In this podcast - the first in a new series for Global Policy - Tom Kirk hosts Jutta Bakonyi and Peter Chonka, authors of Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, belonging and the…