…happens locally, in terms of the politics and economics of development, matters a great deal, and will make the difference between further marginalisation and progress. In our report on jobs…
Paul Collier on post conflict reconstruction, independent service authorities, how to manage natural resources and the hidden logic of the G20 London Summit
…Here are some highlights: Post Conflict Reconstruction: The conventional sequence is ‘build the politics first, then the economics will follow’. Collier thinks the order should be reversed. Conflict is a…
Rethinking anti-corruption for COVID-19
…not get rid of corruption but reduces its level to maximize scaling up. This is very different from the optimization strategy of standard economics. When we discussed this idea with…
Power Switch: How We can Reverse Extreme Inequality. Book Review
…familiar set of left/INGO advocacy demands. He warns first of the stakes—if Biden’s more conservative instincts hold sway, we can expect vaccine inequality, less American influence in global economics, a…
How good/bad are different countries at turning carbon emissions into development?
doughnut economics discussion is that we need to think much more about the carbon efficiency of development. So which countries are getting the best return on rising carbon emissions, in…
The dangers of “policy-sising” social change
…London School of Economics. His research interest is in the everyday reproduction of poverty, inequalities and exclusion. He tweets at @chrischoongww. For those of us who work on public policy…
What will drive action on climate change if negotiations can’t?
…These are routinely dismissed as Dr Strangelove fantasies, but if politics and economics continue to fail us, they may in the end be our only hope. A useful starting point…
Thought Leadership and NGOs: What is it? How can we get better at it?
…developing new concepts (Kate Raworth’s doughnut economics), or moving existing ones up the agenda (inequality, disability). Two concepts might be helpful: idea ecosystems and the policy funnel. In idea ecosystems,…
Links I Liked
…language on gender equity. Article in Spanish Exfam colleague, friend and all-round star Kate Raworth sends off hereagerly anticipated book goes off to the publishers. Doughnut Economics will be published…
Cambodia: community forestry v land grabs is more complicated than I thought
…that indigenous people do badly when they migrate from their home village. Apples and pears – culture and economics; economic rights v indigenous rights v human rights (all supposedly indivisible)….
Book Review: Aids Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations, by Ethan B Kapstein and Joshua W Busby
…delve into the academic literature on the economics and politics of markets (great quote from Carlyle: ‘teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist’), which…
Payment by Results in Aid: What’s new?
…attract people to PbR is that it looks a bit like a market. If you’ve some grasp of economics, PbR looks a lot like paying a recipient to produce development…