Duncan Green
Oxfam GB
Dr Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies. He is author of From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World(Oxfam International, June 2008). His daily development blog can be found at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at Notre Dame University, a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID), a Policy Analyst on trade and globalization at CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales and Head of Research and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible investment. He is the author of several books on Latin America including Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin AmericaSilent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003, 2nd edition), Faces of Latin America(2006, 3rd edition) and Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean (1998). He can be contacted at dgreen@oxfam.org.uk.
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- A nice example of how government-to-government peer pressure can lead to innovation
- How do developing country decision makers rate aid donors? Great new data (shame about the comms)
- Why those promoting growth need to take politics seriously, and vice versa
- Why it’s time to put gender into the inequality discussion
- Where has the global movement against inequality got to, and what happens next?
- What are the drivers of change behind women’s empowerment at national level? The case of Colombia
- Have the MDGs affected developing country policies and spending? Findings of new 50 country study.
- The Politics of Results and Evidence in International Development: important new book
- Fukuyama’s history of the state, book 2: Political Order and Political Decay
- The Origins of Political Order: Review of Francis Fukuyama’s impressive history of the state
- Geek Heresy, by Kentaro Toyama: a book review
- Why is there no ‘Fundraisers Without Borders’? Big missing piece in development.
- The C Word: How should the aid business think and act about Corruption?
- Have technology and globalization kicked away the ladder of ‘easy’ development? Dani Rodrik thinks so
- How can big aid organizations become Fit for the Future? Summary of my new paper
- What happens when historians and campaigners spend a day together discussing how change happens?
- What do we know about the long-term legacy of aid programmes? Very little, so why not go and find out?
- How does Gender change the way we think about Power?
- If Complexity was a person, she would be a Socialist. Jean Boulton on the politics of systems thinking.
- Can aid agencies help systems fix themselves? The implications of complexity for development cooperation
- Could the UN’s new Progress of the World’s Women provide the foundations for feminist economic policy?
- Lifting the lid on the household: A new way to measure individual deprivation
- Is a Data Revolution under way, and if so, who will benefit?
- Where have we got to on Theories of Change? Passing fad or paradigm shift?
- Some healthy scepticism about ‘Citizen Engagement’ (and why I’m excited about MOOCs)
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