Special Issue
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Right now both the EU and the UK are not on track to reach net zero, so there is a lot of work to be done.
One of the first steps to better manage urban population growth is to continue moving towards local and sustainable migration policy.
It is scary, but facts can be political weapons against scapegoating and myopia.
We do not necessarily need wide-ranging ends. Small things matter too. From local security, bus stop spacing and locating, dress codes and noise. Everyday problems, if objects of deliberation, can be occasion of reasons-giving. They encourage reciprocal acknowledgment while letting the debate going.
“If you are not willing to fail, you won’t innovate”. This is how Roshan Paul, Co-founder and Ceo of Amani Institute, addressed the crowd at the Open Days Dell’Innovazione, a two-day gathering of influential experts in innovation for development and start-uppers, held in Milan early this month. The receipt...
There are 244 million international migrants living abroad worldwide. Today, we are told that too many migrants are pressing at the borders of the Western world. And this requires barriers – either material (walls) or formal (legal constraint to obtain first permits). Meanwhile, wealthy people can literally buy access to the EU...
Scaremongering over cultural diversity is a leitmotif of today’s politics. It’s routine to see politicians sprinkling a battery of shocking policy solutions onto social networks and magazine. Migrants have blocked by high fences, walls and barbered wires. “Build that wall! Build that wall!” is a familiar refrain at Donald Trump’s...
If you are living in Hudur, a town in the South Western Bakool region of Somalia, probably you don’t care that much about the Brexit drama unfolding. One does not need to bother learning who is playing for the Remain and who for the Leave. Being so hard to make...
The rise of the so-called ‘new donors’ and increasingly successful forms of direct economic investments from former recipient-countries to the worst-off countries in the Global South poses a challenge to those efforts that try to construct a normative conception of development. Julian Culp is one of the few political philosophers...
In Sarita Vihar, a residential colony in South Delhi, quite far from the traditional hangouts of the development community in the city, Operation Asha – one of the biggest TB treatment NGO in the world – has its headquarters. A handful of technology enthusiasts monitors data from service delivery...
