Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

31 March 2017
Asheesh Advani and Leonardo Martellotto explore the latest silver bullet for tackling poverty. Before Cindy started her company, Chocolovers, through the JA (Junior Achievement)…
31 March 2017
If Europe has a culture, is there such a thing as a European nation, asks Benjamin G Marti? In a piece originally published at Aeon, he cautions against…
30 March 2017
It is now possible that new governments in France and Germany will respond to civil society pressure and do what is needed to change the EU, without being blocked by Britain. This…
30 March 2017
The first 100 days are considered to be a benchmark for presidential performance. This is part of the legacy of FDR, who managed to reshape the US government's role in the…
28 March 2017
Dave Anderson explores what we mean when we talk of 'leveraging'. Leveraging has emerged as the dominant method individuals, organizations and countries use to get things…
28 March 2017
Ducan Green shares some thoughts on recent discussions over how the aid sector should repond to the rising tide of nationalism, populism, and attacks on aid. A couple of Oxfamers…
24 March 2017
Citizens’ Wealth: Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People by Angela Cummine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2016. 296 pp,…
24 March 2017
Global Policy's General Editor Dani Rodrik discusses options for the future of Europe. This month the European Union will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty…
23 March 2017
The UNDP's Administrator Helen Clark talks to Masood Ahmed the president of the Center for Global Development on the day the Trump Administration proposed considerable cuts to…
23 March 2017
Aengus Collins explores the potential consequences of our technological revolution. Any change can be unsettling, but changes as profound as those being unleashed by the current…