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Helidah Didi Ogude argues that a long history of neoliberal state policies have left a US welfare system unfit for purpose and a citizenry wrongly held responsible for their …
Professor Anoush Ehteshami introduces four 'coronavirus diaries' written by his PhD students from different areas of the world, yet undertaking their studies at Durham…
Ba-Linh Tran and Robyn Klingler-Vidra highlight lessons from Vietnam’s currently successful easing of lockdown restrictions.
Vietnam eased social distancing…
Caroline Tynan unpicks why South Korea and Taiwan has been so effective at countering COVID-19.
Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, challenges to democratic…
George Kibala Bauer argues that we must seek nuanced perspectives, engage with local realities, and transcend the Western gaze when reporting on Covid and Africa.…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
Insofar as the world economy was already on a fragile, unsustainable path, COVID-19 clarifies the challenges we face and the decisions we must make. The fate of the world economy…
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu. Repeater. 2020.
Amongst the turmoil of recent years, there are perhaps two broad overriding…
Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva argue that sovereign wealth funds may be central to governments' efforts to balance public responsibility with private interests in…
Why it is increasingly important to interrogate the ways novel technologies are harnessed to address long-standing global sustainability issues.
New technologies are playing a…
African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?
Confinements, lockdowns, social…
By almost any standard, East Asia has dealt with COVID-19 better than Europe and the United States so far: death rates are lower, healthcare systems have not been overwhelmed, and…
Dan Monafu argues experimentation with randomized methods could modernize the traditional granting process, increasing incentive for risk-taking and innovation.
If you’re ever…
Transboundary problems have usually been addressed through issue-specific international institutions, but this approach has left gaps where causal pathways exist across problems.…
Ernst Herb explores increasing calls for sovereign wealth funds to weather global crises.
The call for the creation of a Swiss sovereign wealth fund (SWF) has become louder…