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Democracy is in decline.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest Democracy Index 2016 shows 72 countries experienced a decline in democratic values last year.…
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri. Duke University Press. 2016.
In Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, Lisa…
Charles Kenny explores the potential of a possible US International Organizations review.
There’s increasing appetite in the US to follow the UK model and launch a review…
Dr Nicola Rollock, lead author of the award-winning book The Colour of Class: the educational strategies of the Black middle classes, discusses race, equality and education…
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press. 2016.
In The Econocracy: The Perils of…
Garth Le Pere explores Africa’s ongoing climb out of a peripheral global position and how the international community can work with it.
Despite the recent discourse about…
Josh Powell, Chief Strategy Officer at the Development Gateway weighs in on the Data and Development debate.
While development actors are now creating more data than ever,…
Many observers are expecting a hard Brexit to take place. But what is the most likely outcome of the upcoming Brexit negotiations and how can the UK minimise any negative economic…
In part 2, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents and criticizes the Moody’s report on the downgrading of The Bahamas, and discusses aspects of a holistic development…
Can we transform the renting economy of Uber and AirBnB into a genuine sharing one? Platform cooperatives must become open and commons-oriented.
“What if this is not…