Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

20 August 2018
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
17 August 2018
Since the resignation of Boris Johnson and David Davis, ostensibly in response to Theresa May’s Chequers plan for the next phase of Brexit negotiations, many have quite…
16 August 2018
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Alexander Krauss, explains why despite social and medical sciences depending on randomised control trials, they face more biases than…
15 August 2018
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…
14 August 2018
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…
13 August 2018
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…
10 August 2018
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…
09 August 2018
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…
08 August 2018
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…
06 August 2018
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,…