Duncan Green's Blog, page 36
July 26, 2020
Links I Liked
BLM continues to inspire reflection and rethinking: ‘Racism is very costly to its victims but also to racists—everyone is worse off in a double defeat. Ethnicism carries big opportunity costs and causes psychological damage (post-colonialism stress disorder.) Celestine Monga on the economy of prejudices. How (not) to write about global health Revisiting the Brixton struggle […]
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July 23, 2020
What does COVID tell us about responding to the Climate Crisis?
Guest post by Paul Knox-Clarke While Europe adjusts to a ‘new abnormal’, COVID-19 infection and mortality are still increasing in much of the rest of the world. The global response to this pandemic still has a long way to run, and it is too early to judge how effective emergency management and humanitarian actions have […]
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July 22, 2020
How has global multi-dimensional poverty changed over the first ten years of measurement?
Sabina Alkire presents the headlines from the latest Multi-Dimensional Poverty report Poverty is not just about income – dollars per day. It includes indicators on poor health, education, housing and more (see graphic). For the last ten years, we’ve been measuring this more nuanced multi-dimensional poverty – here’s what we’ve found. At least 1.3 billion […]
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July 21, 2020
How has Corruption driven China’s Rise? Yuen Yuen Ang discusses her new book
I sat down (via Zoom) this week with one of the most interesting observers of China, Yuen Yuen Ang. Her ground-breaking new book, China’s Gilded Age (see my review here), discusses the links between corruption and China’s stellar rise – and the real history of corruption and capitalism. DG: China disproves everything we hear from […]
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July 13, 2020
How do recipient countries regard China’s aid? Two new papers shed light
Guest post by Hannah Ryder, CEO of Development Reimagined, and former head of partnerships for UNDP China What do the governments of countries like Cameroon or Cambodia really think of Chinese aid and loans? It’s a question few commentators and funders ask, and even fewer are interested in helping respond to the challenges they raise. […]
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July 12, 2020
Links I Liked
Might be time for the Avon and Somerset Police to consider using a different media spokesman, or at least calling him Robert…. Ht James Herring ‘8 big food & drink companies paid out over $18bn to shareholders since January – ten times more than has been requested in the UN COVID-19 appeal to stop people […]
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July 11, 2020
Development Nutshell: Audio summary (15m) of FP2P posts, w/b 6th July
My last round up before heading off for holiday for a week. Walking in the English rain – what’s not to like?
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July 10, 2020
Effective Activism in a Time of Coronavirus: what are we learning six months in?
Kirsty McNeill of Save the Children had a great piece on Global Dashboard this week. It mainly focuses on the UK, but I think its relevance is much wider than that. I’ve cut down the original for the tl;dr community, but if you have time, do read the full post here. In a fight between […]
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July 9, 2020
China’s Gilded Age: a fantastic new book from Yuen Yuen Ang
A new book from Yuen Yuen Ang is always a cause for celebration. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, is a brilliant application of systems thinking to the biggest development story of the last half century (review and podcast if you haven’t already digested it). Now she’s turned her attention to a massive conundrum and […]
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July 8, 2020
The Covid Inequality Ratchet: how the pandemic has hit the lives of young, women, minority and poor workers the hardest.
On the occasion of the “ILO Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work” Oxfam’s Filippo Artuso, Iñigo Macías-Aymar, and Franziska Mager looked into what we know about the unequal impact of COVID-19 on workers, and how to rebuild fairer societies. The coronavirus pandemic and global lockdown measures have shone a light on pre-existing […]
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