Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

11 October 2016
On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard realities of…
10 October 2016
Johanna Mendelson Forman argies that food is an important aspect of national security, social entrepreneurship, and peacebuilding. We are witnessing a revolution in food. New…
10 October 2016
Their message is that it will change production, benefit consumers and bring a sense of togetherness, writes Giuseppe Porcaro. Any device with an on-and-off switch can (and should…
07 October 2016
Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” He should know. Mandela, and others, vanquished perhaps the world’s second most…
07 October 2016
15 years after he coined the term, Jim O'Neill explores the progress of the BRICS. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the “BRICs,” the term I coined to…
06 October 2016
But the effect on firm performance has been mixed across the different countries, write Simona Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica Origo and Laura Pagani. In the last decade, a number…
06 October 2016
Angela Robinson and Paul Piff explore how inequality causes an empathy gap. For many, wealth may seem like an unmitigated good – the more of it you have, the better. After…
05 October 2016
Building a culture of philanthropy in the global South is a herculean task, but small grants can still make big changes. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on funding…
05 October 2016
Dani Quah argues that we ought to consider multiple pathways to economic success. Some reckon there is just one way to run the world. That singular path is the set of ideals…
04 October 2016
Roland Benedikter and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski explore the ambiguous future of Germany’s refugee crisis. The refugee and migrant crisis has been one of the most important…
03 October 2016
Is there a way to stabilize or even reverse climate change and thus avert a potentially catastrophic scenario that could threaten human civilization as we know it? In the…
03 October 2016
Duncan Green explores the potential for collaborations between academics and NGOs. I attended the annual awayday of the LSE’s International Development Department last week…
30 September 2016
Efforts should be made to up-skill workers and build them affordable homes near the new jobs, writes Avinash Persau. Britons voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. The EU is a…