Book Review: What can Activists learn from the AIDS Drugs Movement?
Still catching up with reviews from my holiday reading – Alex de Waal’s new book (already reviewed) and AIDS Drugs for All, which came highly recommended. (I also read and enjoyed Marlon James and...
View ArticleIndustrial Policy meets Doing Development Differently: an evening at SOAS
It’s always interesting when a neglected issue suddenly resurfaces in multiple locations. That’s been happening with industrial policy – in particular the role of governments in developing their...
View ArticleWeekly links March 18: R&D credits, Indian internal migration, Accra’s slums,...
On the LSE Business Review blog, work by Nguyen and Van Reenen using an RDD to show that tax credits increased R&D spending and innovation among SMEs in the UK. On Microeconomic Insights, a really...
View ArticleWhat did trade campaigns achieve? Plus reinventing Robert Chambers & changing...
Had a really interesting couple of days in Berlin last week, at the invitation of the German government aid agency, GIZ. Also spent time with the impressive policy and campaigns wonks at Oxfam Germany....
View ArticleTackling Inequality is a game changer for business and private sector...
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan is thinking through the implications of inequality for the businesses he interacts with Mention inequality to a business audience and one of two things...
View ArticleDo people identify as global or national citizens? New report suggests a...
This is interesting, and feels like it could be part of a big normative shift. According to a new report from Globescan (a polling company), across 20,000 people in 18 countries ‘more than half (51%)...
View ArticleMore in common
I’m tired and upset, and that probably isn’t the best time to write about what I think of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. But here goes anyway. I reserve the right to think something...
View ArticleWhat’s the likely impact of Brexit on development, aid and Oxfam? Any...
Following on Tuesday’s retrospective ‘how did this happen?’ piece, some thoughts on the future, starting wide (development in general) then narrowing down to the aid business, and all the way to...
View ArticlePolitiFact Examines Trade Deals’ Potential Impacts On Indian Generic Drug...
PolitiFact: Do trade deals threaten India as low-cost HIV drug maker? “…Doctors Without Borders said that trade deals threaten the capacity of Indian generic drug makers to produce the next round of...
View ArticleIs this the right moment to reboot the Aid, Trade and Private Sector agenda?
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan thinks the times are ripe for a paradigm shift In a former life (i.e. six years ago), I worked as a development adviser to Australia’s trade negotiators....
View ArticleHow can global companies (positively) influence development? Engaging with...
Oxfam works with lots of big private companies, but in the (frequent) discussions about the role of private sector in development, our relationship with one (very big) name keeps cropping up. Unilever....
View ArticleWhat sort of trade campaigns do we need around Brexit?
Not all conference calls are as terrible as the one depicted in ‘a conference call in real life’. Had a really good one yesterday with Oxfam/Exfam trade wonks on the impact of Brexit on Britain’s trade...
View ArticleWhy/how should corporates defend civil society space? Good new paper + case...
I saw some effective academic-NGO cooperation last week, and even better, it involved some of my LSE students. The occasion was the launch of Beyond Integrity: Exploring the role of business in...
View ArticleScaling Fair Trade: 5 Lessons On How GlobeIn Grew to Over $1M in Sales
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View ArticleHow the UK can lead the world on trade for development
Prime Minister Theresa May has said that the UK will be a "global leader on free trade”. How can the UK use that opportunity to give the biggest possible boost to global development? If the UK wanted...
View ArticleMultinational Companies in retreat? Fascinating Economist briefing
Now we’re all looking for ways to break out of filter bubble, I guess I can feel less guilty about loving The Economist. Beautifully written, it covers places and issues other papers ignore, and every...
View ArticleHuman Rights in Global Health Governance
by Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler and Lawrence O. Gostin Human rights frame global health governance. In codifying a normative foundation for global governance in the aftermath of World War...
View ArticleDon’t Buy Local
This summer I finally got around to doing my first Park Run, joining the now millions of people around the world who turn up on Saturday mornings for a free 5km timed run around their local park (I...
View ArticleFall 2018 Issue
VOLUME XII, NO. 2 FALL 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Text Chinese Global Health Diplomacy in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Olivia Killeen, Alissa Davis, Joe Tucker and Benjamin Mason Meier...
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