Omonigho Otanocho looks at the little known problem of crude oil theft, which costs lives and contributes to global terrorism. Crude oil theft, otherwise known as ‘illegal crude oil bunkering’, is global challenge especially for oil exporting countries like Nigeria. According to reports available at the Chatham House website, “Nigerian crude oil is being stolen […]
Is the use of statistics leading to short-term economic thinking?
Diane Coyle asks if our use of economic statistics is distorting policy and making it focused on the short-term. When the same question crops up in some very different places, it is a signal of the importance of the issue. In two events recently, participants have challenged the role of the media in the economy. […]
Refugees: Lessons from history
Peter Gatrell teaches a course on refugees in modern world history and is author of “The Making of the Modern Refugee”. Here he makes a few observations about what history can teach today’s policy makers. Never has this subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here I reflect on two questions: what might […]
The SDGs mark the end of development as poverty reduction
In the final part of our series on the Sustainable Development Goals which have just been agreed in New York, David Hulme analyses what it all means…. The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold […]
Zoning global? North Korea’s Special Economic Zones
Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee ask if there are lessons for policymakers in the actions of North and South Korea in setting up zones where they can work together. When one hears the word globalisation, the image of North Korea rarely comes to mind. Long regarded as a hermit kingdom, a rogue state, and international […]
Varieties of the democratic state market?
When Francis Fukuyama published his now famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) initial essay on “The End of History” in 1989 it provoked a furious discussion that continues to this day (the later book version is here) and is continued here by Colin Talbot. The discussion has often generated more heat than […]
Migrant Drs keep the NHS going
Research led by Yasmin Ghazala Farooq with Kingsley Purdam, Aneez Esmail and Rob Ford at the University of Manchester has highlighted the vital contribution overseas trained doctors have made to people’s health and to the NHS in the UK. Given the ongoing debates about immigration control it is important to recognise that Britishness is a […]
If we don’t get a strong climate deal, the Sustainable Development Goals are doomed
With the Sustainable Development Goals Conference starting in New York on Friday, David Hulme continues our series … The imminent announcement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is generating real debate amongst researchers, NGOs and academics about their level of ambition and the likelihood of success. Will they be business as usual for the […]
The well-being of young migrant men
As large numbers of migrants, many of them young men, arrive on European shores, questions abound about their future. What do the coming years hold for them? What challenges will they face? And will they be happy? Necla Acik looks at the evidence….. A project just completed asked over 300 young migrant men about their […]
Universal access to sanitation requires a revolution in understanding
In the latest in our series on the negotiations in New York over Sustainable Development Goals, Diana Mitlin says that sanitation should be a priority. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes a clear commitment to universal access to sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This wording may have […]
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