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November 27, 2023
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Than...
Blog Post
November 22, 2023
Under the Indian Presidency, the G20 tasked N.K. Singh and Larry Summers to convene an independent expert group (IEG) to recommend how to strengthen multilateral development banks and address the shared global challenges of the 21st century (disclosure: we were both part of the Secretariat supportin...
Blog Post
November 21, 2023
The European Commission launched a new ‘Skills and Talent Mobility’ package. The package included the creation of a new European Union Talent Pool which aims to match EU-based employers with jobseekers in non-EU (or ‘third’) countries. This blog explores the history of this idea, why the EC thinks i...
Blog Post
November 20, 2023
Climate change will impact migration patterns. Numerous efforts have been made to quantify the scale and timelines of this impact. This is quite sensible. Policies are better when we know where their beneficiaries are, what their needs are, when these needs will arise, and how any intervention will ...
Blog Post
November 20, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred an acceleration in the development of global health technologies. These technologies—many of which are only just coming to market—have the potential to reshape health systems, with significant positive impacts on global health security and pandemic preparedness.