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Marie Curie Research Fellow, Alexander Krauss, explains why despite social and medical sciences depending on randomised control trials, they face more biases than…
Odette Chalaby introduces a new award for advocates on gender equality.
Some advocates for gender equality — think Justin Trudeau, Malala Yousafzai and Julia Gillard, former…
Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito introduce findings from a new research project on historical trade data.
Since 2007, the apparently unstoppable growth of world trade…
A new scientific paper proposing a scenario of unstoppable climate change has gone viral, thanks to its evocative description of a “Hothouse Earth”. Much of the media coverage…
Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner continue their special series of blogs on the future of economic development, work, and wages in developing countries. Here they look at the…
Oxfam's Ed Cairns on how advocates of international humanitarian law have started getting excited about culture and norms.
Do we need to get used to war? That’s the frightening…
The space race between the USA and Russia started with a beep from the Sputnik satellite exactly 60 years ago (October 4, 1957) and ended with a handshake in space just 18 years…
In a recent open letter on The Guardian Online, fifteen leading economists, argue that relying on randomised control trials to guide aid spending will lead to short-term,…
Trade wars have an interesting way of revealing cultural stereotypes.
Countries often propose tariffs not on the most valuable items in their trading relationships – since that…
Branko Milanovic explores a recent paper that argues US market income inequality is generally greater than in other rich countries and that the American state …
Rufus Pollock argues that the software, algorithms and protocols on which the tech giants run should be made open and free for anyone to use.
Google’s recent record €4.3 billion…
Astha Kapoor explores Rohingya refugees' fight for their entitlements and the story of their digital identity in India.
The discussion of digital identity for refugees has been…
The role of developing countries in the global economy via embeddedness in Global Value Chains (GVC) is increasing, but their ability to become innovation leaders is less certain…
Book Review – The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe: Energy Security, Contested Technologies and the Social Licence to Frack by Andreas Goldthau. Cambridge: Cambridge…
50.50 spent a fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at the International Conference on Men’s Issues, organised at an undisclosed location in London.
Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs…