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Bright Simons argues that the absorption channel for development finance, rather than fundraising, is the main bottleneck the Bank's new President must address.…
Pelle Axelsson interviews the well known WMD hunter. Hans Blix was born in Uppsala in 1928. He studied law at Uppsala University and later continued his studies at Cambridge…
Tom Kirk argues that INGOs should be objects of study as much as the outcomes of their programmes. I have long argued that a ‘public authorities’ lens can inform the way we think…
Stuart Mills tempers expectations and fears around the new AI driven tool. ChatGPT is a remarkable technological development, capable of writing compelling prose that comes across…
Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq have shed light on the announcement of the proposed loss and damage fund, arguing it a monumental achievement for climate activists and…
Davina Cooper explores an increasingly common practice in private, pubic and professional spaces. Pronoun sharing has become an increasingly mainstream practice. Today, pronouns…
The University of Johannesburg and the Centre for Public Authority and International Development at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that in light of the war in Ukraine which has so far elicited a fairly muted response from actors from the Global…
Louise Curran and Jappe Eckhardt argue that the EU is posed to intervene in the private sector at levels not seen for decades, but hurdles remain. As the key world economies…
KS Roshan Menon argues why, and how, global privacy law must account for ageing and cognitive decline. Statistics reveal the emergence of a global cognitive decline problem. The…