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By Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee Filed Under: All posts, Urban Posted:
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 […]
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted:
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 […]
By Yasmin Farooq, Kingsley Purdam, Rob Ford and Aneez Esmail Filed Under: All posts Posted:
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 […]
By David Hulme Filed Under: All posts Posted:
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 […]
By Necla Acik Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:
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 […]
By Diana Mitlin Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:
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 […]
By Omar Ghulam Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:
With expectations of the Bank of England raising interest rates growing with each passing month, Omar Ghulam warns that such a course of action may have other consequences. The central banking bible holds that thou shalt raise rates when the economy overheats, or lower rates when the economy cools ‘other things being equal’. What if […]
By Uma Kothari Filed Under: All posts Posted:
Professor Uma Kothari explores what may happen with development and migration as climate change begins to have an impact. The impacts of climate change are likely to be severe. Extreme weather events, heat stress, rising sea levels, infections and disease are just some potential results, which will hit poor and vulnerable populations in developing countries […]
By Andrew Karvonen Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Urban Posted:
Last month the UK government announced that it was abandoning its 2016 commitment to require all new housing in England and Wales to be zero carbon. Here Andrew Karvonen looks at the possible impact of that decision. In ‘Fixing the Foundations: Creating a More Prosperous Nation’, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne cited the zero carbon […]
By Armando Barrientos Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:
In the second of our series on the United Nations negotiations over Sustainable Development Goals, to be held in New York later this month, Armando Barrientos says new thinking is required. Perhaps the greatest failing of the Millennium Development Goals was their focus on aid as the main financing tool for development. This ‘cosmopolitan’ perspective has […]