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Karl Muth argues that policymakers should approach suicide as a choice, and not a crime or a disease. After a recent suicide in my own family, and having recently revised my will…
Karl T. Muth suggests Sony can fight back. I've advised companies in serious, bet-the-company situations. I suggest that Sony is in such a situation: its decisions this week and…
Andy Sumner argues that it may be more useful to ask when aid works, not whether. The policy debate around whether foreign aid—now $138.5 billion a year—works has been polarized…
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The Post-2015 Consensus' latest set of papers suggest setting universal access to sexual and reproductive health services as a target for the post-2015 development agenda and…
Karl Muth suggests a way out of the polarised gridlock that has come to define Occidental liberal democracy. When I was a teenager – during the Blair government and the Clinton…
The Post-2015 Consensus' seventh set of papers unpick the argument that promoting free trade as a target for the post-2015 development agenda could make everyone in the world…
Is minting a currency truly an early symptom of statehood or state-building? To ISIS, state-building means something different from its use in development circles. It means the…
Karl Muth argues that the analysis of policy alignment – intranationally and internationally – can be examined using quantitative tools. The historical approach to policy…
Karl Muth discusses the reputational, political and gender-related connotations of the use of ‘they’. The singular plural as “they” has always bothered me, sounding to me like…