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February 1, 2021
Three dreams we must dream when writing Chile’s new constitution
In October 2020, Chileans voted overwhelmingly to create a new constitution. If Chileans are to capitalise on this historic opportunity, says Maria Carrasco, an LSE AFSEE Fellow, they must dare to dream of bold new ways to address their problems and guide our institutions. That includes focusing on the environment, happiness and economies of care […]
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January 31, 2021
Imagining the world anew: gender equality and women’s rights – Part 2
On Friday Nikki van der Gaag analysed the disastrous impact of the pandemic on women’s rights. Today she asks what would it mean to build an economy that centres care, not carelessness? Back in August last year, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the only way viruses have been vanquished is via “permanent adjustments” to economics […]
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January 29, 2021
January 27, 2021
Imagining the world anew: the pandemic and gender equality
The pandemic has eroded women’s rights – but there is a way forward, says Nikki van der Gaag 2020 was not a good year for women’s rights. Women have borne the brunt of the effects of the pandemic, from home schooling to losing their jobs to domestic violence to a drop in girl’s education […]
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January 26, 2021
Right now, it feels like anything can derail everything, so are theories of change still useful?
Guest post from Oxfam’s Thomas Dunmore-Rodriguez Applying a theory of change approach is hard, and in the current context just got a whole lot harder. Theories of change tend to be abstract, intangible, and largely hypothetical, so given the unpredictability of the COVID-affected world, are they still useful for activists seeking to strategize for positive […]
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January 25, 2021
Why the Inequality Virus should be the talk of Davos this week
It’s Davos week again. Julie Seghers (Twitter @JulieSeghers) summarizes Oxfam’s new report. The 2021 Davos edition is pretty unusual. For the first time, the world’s rich and powerful aren’t flying their jets to the Swiss mountains, but are instead meeting online to chart a path out of a deadly pandemic and the worst economic recession […]
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January 24, 2021
Links I Liked
Oldie but Goodie: what academics say v what they mean Cause for celebration. The Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like blog is back! Ten humanitarian crises and trends to watch in 2021 Peter Evans of FCDO has revealed unexpected talents as a cartoonist during lockdown, but is clearly short of subject matter, as he’s ended up […]
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January 22, 2021
January 20, 2021
Nothing to Learn from East Asia?
This post by Jomo Kwame Sundaram was first posted on the IPS website Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have […]
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January 19, 2021
10 steps to Becoming a Successful Academic – the definitive guide
A rather wonderful twitter thread from Maarten van Smeden went viral recently, so I asked if we could bloggify it and he kindly agreed. Enjoy. How do I know how to become a successful academic? I don’t, but I have received plenty of advice. As a good academic, I will just summarize what I have […]
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