Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre Professor Kunal Sen has published a new book: Out of the Shadows?
How can Poor People be Brought into Formalised Economies?
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What can the Philippines do to Accelerate Nutrition Improvement?
The Philippine launch of the GNR, brilliantly organized by the Government of the Philippines and UNICEF, was timely.
Food or Agriculture
In December 2015, World Trade Organization (WTO) attracted attentions again.
At What Point will We do Something about Inequality?
Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets by a tiny minority of the world’s population – has increased.
Confronting Child Poverty – Children Speak in a New Report
Save the Children is pleased to announce the launch of Child Poverty Report on January 19. Our new report looks at the situation of children living in poverty in countries around the world…
A Climate Potluck in Paris
“We have an agreement”. Those redeeming words from French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in the evening of Saturday the 12th of December unleashed a wave of standing ovations from high level UN staff…
What is Your Country’s Nutrition Profile?
We have finally completed the rather mammoth task of updating all 193 nutrition country profiles for the latest version of the Global Nutrition Report.
Five Resolutions for 2016
I’m not great at keeping New Year’s Resolutions, but maybe blogging about them will help me stick to them. Here they are.
Socrates, a Pig and Progressive Taxation: A Mirrleesian Morality Tale
Socrates and a pig walk into a bar. Socrates orders a fine bottle of claret and argues for hours with the bartender about Romantic poetry.
Investing in Nutrition to Break the Cycle of Boom and Bust in Zambia’s Economy
Zambia’s economy is in a tailspin right now. The world price of copper is low and China’s economic growth –which powers so much of the investment in Zambia–is slowing down.
