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    Jason Hickel – The Microfinance Delusion: who really wins?

Jason Hickel – The Microfinance Delusion: who really wins?

Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, Jason Hickel (Dept. Anthropology) tells the Guardian. I’m always amazed at how many students show up each year in the classrooms of the London School of Economics, where I teach, quivering with excitement about microfinance and other “bottom-of-the-pyramid” development strategies. Like […]

June 11th, 2015|Featured, Topical and Comment|1 Comment|
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    Duncan Green / Owen Barder – Can aid agencies help systems fix themselves? The implications of complexity for development cooperation

Duncan Green / Owen Barder – Can aid agencies help systems fix themselves? The implications of complexity for development cooperation

LSE Professor in Practice Duncan Green asks Owen Barder, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and Visiting Professor in Practice, to expand on a lecture delivered to our Masters students in February about complexity and development. [Originally posted on fp2p.] Owen Barder gave a brilliant lecture on complexity and development to my LSE students earlier this year. (View […]

May 13th, 2015|Featured, Topical and Comment|1 Comment|
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Ken Shadlen wins Open Article prize for 2014

Ken Shadlen, along with Mark Manger (formerly of LSE), has been awarded the Open Article prize for 2014 from the Economics and Politics Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Their prizewinning paper, ‘Political Trade Dependence and North–South Trade Agreements’, was published in the International Studies Quarterly journal in March last year (full citation below). The research was funded by the […]

April 17th, 2015|News from the Department, Publications|0 Comments|
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    Beyond Coffee Beans and Bamboo – A wake up call for transformative investment in Africa

Beyond Coffee Beans and Bamboo – A wake up call for transformative investment in Africa

Like many pensive blog posts this one began as a trip to the supermarket… While searching for a bag of coffee, I stumbled upon a brand which loudly proclaimed that is was giving 50% of its revenues back to the African farmers who grew it. Initially, I thought, “At last, a fair trade initiative which is actually ‘fair.’” I managed to […]

July 3rd, 2014|Department Alumni, Topical and Comment|0 Comments|
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    Current thinking about global trade policy – Robert Wade’s frustration at UNCTAD

Current thinking about global trade policy – Robert Wade’s frustration at UNCTAD

Following a recent United Nations conference, Robert Wade voices his frustration at the failure of international trade economists to see beyond their own bubble. A whole industry is now in gear to construct global goals as successors to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are due to “expire” in 2015. The successors are to be called the Sustainable Development Goals […]

December 19th, 2013|Topical and Comment|0 Comments|
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Launch of the 2013 UNCTAD Trade and Development Report TOMORROW

The Department of International Development invites you to the launch of the 2013 UNCTAD Trade and Development Report tomorrow. Adjusting to the changing dynamics of the world economy Date: Thursday 12 September 2013 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speaker: Richard Kozul-Wright Discussant: Professor Robert Wade Chair: Professor Oriana Bandiera

September 11th, 2013|Events, News from the Department|0 Comments|
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