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It’s a common argument among climate deniers: scientific models cannot predict the future, so why should we trust them to tell us how the climate will change?
This trope recently…
Duncan Green explores Oxfam's annual Davos report: The Inequality Virus.
I know this is the week of Blue Monday, when we are all supposed to feel at our most miserable, but I’m…
This is the second of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “intolerable” and “a matter of life or death”. The US president, Joe Biden, has…
I sat down recently with Ayesha Khan, who works with the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi, Pakistan. She is author of The Women’s Movement in Pakistan:…
This is the first of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that sufficient gender disaggregated data is available in Pakistan, the challenge remains how to use this data to improve gender equality.
Sustainable…
States, Markets, and Foreign Aid by Simone Dietrich. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN: 9781009007290
Back in the day, when I was doing advocacy on trade and globalization, I…
Josh Ettinger on the power and pitfalls of using satire to change the narrative.
The global top three programmes on Netflix currently include the heroic quest of a…
“We were so hopeful last March when the UN Open-Ended Working Group agreed to endorse all 11 of us voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible state behavior.”
With apologies to…