Why are human rights NGOs in emerging powers not emerging?
Lucia Nader – Middle-income BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries are becoming more politically prominent, appearing on the covers of magazines and newspapers in the developed world, … Continue reading
The Politics of Evidence
Conference Report – Who decides what data is needed, how it should be collected – and why and how it is used as evidence? What drives their choices? Politics of what … Continue reading
The 7 Points on Alleviating Poverty
Originally posted on Transnational Planning:
The 7 Points to Alleviating Poverty Continuing from the article on the oversimplification of “poverty”, to developing principles that will help navigate the complex landscape…
Populism, its opposites, and its contentious relationship with democracy
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser – The recent Eurocrisis has shown a fact that is relatively obvious for observers of Latin American and US politics, namely, that populism can be both right-wing … Continue reading
Japan shrinks
Nicholas Eberstadt – Many nations have ageing populations, but none can quite match Japan. Its experience holds lessons for other countries as well as insights into the distinctiveness of Japanese … Continue reading
Three mistakes we’re still making about Smart Cities
Originally posted on The Urban Technologist:
(David Willets, MP, Minister for Universities and Science, launches the UK Government’s Smart Cities Forum) (I was asked this week to contribute my view…
Corporate Accountability in ASEAN: A Human Rights-Based Approach
Assesses the impacts of business on human rights in the ASEAN sub-region. Originating from cases presented at two public hearings organised by civil society groups in 2011 in response to … Continue reading
Development-led Globalization Requires De-colonizing the MDGs
Manuel Montes – De-Colonizing the MDGs is necessary if the agreed post-2015 global goals are to be truly developmental. In the framework of development-led globalization, Africa is not just a continent … Continue reading
Uncharted Territory: The Power of Amateur Cartographers
Katie Collins – As populations continue to shift, environments continue to change and cities continue to grow, there needs to be an ongoing remapping of the world around us if we’re … Continue reading
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