Ben Taub reports on Guantanamo’s ‘darkest secret’, providing a damning indictment...
Category - Aid and Asia
IPA and impact evaluation in fragile states
Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing Ricardo Morel, the Myanmar Country Director for...
Smoking on the rise in Indonesia, and other recent WHO NCD...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently identified ten threats to global health in 2019...
‘A village goes mobile’: mobile phones and social change
A village goes mobile by Sirpa Tenhunen is a detailed examination of the roles of mobile phones in...
Fixing Afghanistan’s flawed peace process
In February last year, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered the Taliban unconditional talks to...
Unequal Thailand: trends and consequences
Thailand has experienced rapid growth and a structural transformation since the 1950s. However...
Remittances and migration: the case of Nepal
In the last two decades, remittances have grown to almost three times the size of official aid. As...
Achieving policy change through a market systems approach
Enhancing the business enabling environment is complex and, I would argue, requires a systems...
Tragic Dili shooting shows Timor policing still in need of reform
In the early hours of Sunday morning in Dili, off-duty East Timorese police shot dead three young...
Identity and opportunity for Timorese migrant workers in the UK
This year I revisited some of the Timorese migrant workers in Northern Ireland whom I first visited...