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Garth Le Pere explores Africa’s ongoing climb out of a peripheral global position and how the international community can work with it.
Despite the recent discourse about…
Josh Powell, Chief Strategy Officer at the Development Gateway weighs in on the Data and Development debate.
While development actors are now creating more data than ever,…
Many observers are expecting a hard Brexit to take place. But what is the most likely outcome of the upcoming Brexit negotiations and how can the UK minimise any negative economic…
In part 2, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents and criticizes the Moody’s report on the downgrading of The Bahamas, and discusses aspects of a holistic development…
Can we transform the renting economy of Uber and AirBnB into a genuine sharing one? Platform cooperatives must become open and commons-oriented.
“What if this is not…
In 1984 the Mexico City Policy, or ‘global gag rule’, was enacted by the United States, restricting federal funds to international family planning institutions…
The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: the evolution and roles of the Revolutionary Guards by Hesam Forozan. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2016. 255 pp, £100 hardcover…
Andrew Chakhoyan asks what can the U.N. learn from the world of start-ups?
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook's plan to bring the global community together…
In part 1, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents the main features and concerns associated with financialization in the present era of neoliberal globalization.
The era of…
So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that there is more work to be done.
Recent commentary on…