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How we can develop global and local ecosystems to create, upscale and sustain entrepreneurial endeavours that contribute to the social good.
Although each and every country has…
A decade after the financial crash, an epic repeat is on course.
Two reports by Swiss banks, published within a week of each other, offer further revealing evidence on the growth…
Lessons for ensuring work really does pay.
The visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to the UK is crystallising an unease…
Milli Lake explores how and to what extent the spotlight on sexual violence has restructured judicial priorities in eastern DR Congo and South Africa.
Following a reported decline…
Institutional Cosmopolitanism edited by Luis Cabrera. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 pp., £47.99 hardcover 978-0190905651, £45.59 Kindle edition
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Cara Stauß, a representative of the German state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union, explores the role regions and cities can play addressing global challenges.
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Karen Yeung and Peter Mills argue that we need to start thinking now about what might be good and bad reasons to preselect certain characteristics of future people.
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Duncan Green explores the aid sector's enduring blind spot.
I’ve spotted a recurring problem with the way the aid sector talks about fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS).…
Higher education, although clearly not a government priority, is becoming a bargaining chip as the UK considers its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett examines the…
Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst weigh in on eating less meat to address climate change.
Here we go again. The “sceptical environmentalist”, Bjorn Lomborg, has returned…
This week, Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner up their special series on the future of economic development, work, and wages in developing countries. We draw some…
Marina Costa Esteves Coutinho comments on the rise of old messages in Brazil's recent elections.
The result of Brazil’s latest national election follows the current…
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences by Taylor St John. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 304 pp., £60 hardcover 9780198789918…
Observers have noted we are now in the midst of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” whereby new digital technologies and big data both offer the potential to address longstanding…
Richard Falk's lecture on 'World Order in the Age of Trump and Trumpism' at West Chester University, October 24, 2018.
The title requires a few words of explanation. By the ‘Age…