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Just been skimming an interesting new paper by Caroline Dommen, with an ambitious purpose – to brand and describe a new branch of economics – Human Rights Economics (HRE…
Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s behaviour changes over time, I believe psychology…
Our global economic system is failing. We need a fresh start to address the inequities of the past 80 years.
In 1944, with the Second World War still raging, US president Franklin…
On 18 July, the EU signed a new agreement with Azerbaijan aimed at increasing the country’s gas exports to Europe. Gubad Ibadoghlu assesses what the deal means for…
This blog by Maitland Murray was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is …
At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk?
In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now…
With Boris Johnson’s departure, the drama of the Conservative leadership election, and Keir Starmer’s declaration that “integrity matters” in politics, the question of what…
Biden must release Afghanistan’s foreign reserves to alleviate suffering, argues Ecuador’s ex-central bank director.
"Hell on earth.” That’s how the World Food Programme’s…
What were the origins of European imperialism? Drawing on a new study, Jan P. Vogler explains that centuries of European interstate rivalries were an essential…
This blog by Andreas Brox was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as…
Duncan Green urges investigators to focus on starvation methods in their extraordinary efforts to document war crimes in Ukraine and…
The “living with COVID” strategy being pursued by many countries relies heavily on two key pillars. First, that vaccines continue to protect most people from severe disease. And…
Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: let’s take back control of our marine environment for the common good.
For most of human history, the oceans have been seen as a…
We need to face uncomfortable realities about the unequal power dynamics in development and humanitarian spaces. This needs a complete paradigm shift towards our understanding of…
As much of the world shut down early in the COVID pandemic, Sweden remained open. The country’s approach was controversial, with some calling it “the Swedish experiment”. But…