The Rich Tapestry of India’s ESG Ideology: Insights from its Ancient Scriptures and Practices
By Srinath Sridharan
In today's rapidly changing world, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles are gaining significant traction, as societies across the globe recognise the...
Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: advocacy and opportunity for civil...
By Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel and Mustafa Koc
Traditional approaches to food and agriculture policy making in Canada are in question, with the realization that...
Closing the Gap: What Will it Take for the UK to be a “Double...
By Christina Palmou
The pandemic has brought into sharper focus the unequal opportunities at work for men and women. Policy, management practices and a structural...
Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: An East Asian Perspective
By Akihisa Mori
Despite democratisation and foreign assistance, many East Asian nations are stuck in the mud in terms of developing domestic environmental governance. Their...
How to Improve IMF Programs: Learning Some Hard Lessons
By Danny Leipziger
The Current Context
Recent International Monetary Fund statements have indicated that times are difficult due to burgeoning fiscal deficits, geo-political fragmentation, and the...
Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)
By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips
A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...
What Makes a Genocide? How should we best understand the confounding connections between self-defence,...
By Joseph Mazur
A word best-describing intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group now swerves its definition to attack the victim. The...
An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...
Managing Human and Intellectual Capital for Sustaining African Organisations
By Hamid H. Kazeroony, Yvonne du Plessis, Bill Buenar Puplampu
In this article, the authors examine the needs of African organisations for human and intellectual...
Refugees and Refugee Crises: Some Historical Reflections
By Peter Gatrell
The current Syrian refugee crisis provides an opportunity to look beyond the headlines and to locate it in a broader historical context....
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development. Among other things, the Bank introduced poverty focused loans, a...
