Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Does development always eliminate gender discrimincation? Naila Kabeer scrutinises the thinking behind the recent Nobel prize-winning methodology in development economics. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three …
Plumbers and pedagogues Read More
Marianna Leite discusses the need for a global economic overhaul. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we have been bombarded with statements, rapid assessments and calls to action. We …
People count Read More
Up and down the length of Chile, people are turning to soup kitchens for their hunger needs as the coronavirus pandemic broadens inequality after lockdown measures shuttered the informal economy …
Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs Read More
India’s first-ever time use survey finds that women continue to do over one more hour of work every day than men. The report highlights the rampant “time poverty” experienced by women when …
India’s Women Bear the Burden of Unpaid Work – With Costs to Themselves and the Economy Read More
Watch the final presentation and discussion with our expert panel… View the presentation … and hear our expert panel’s reflections. … and read more about this great project and the …
Spot On! Read More
Food insecurity grows when the sense of community is low. Megan Blake tells how people have stepped up to the challenge. Kora and Ryan are just starting out on …
An isolated problem Read More
People pull together when times are tough. Governments should let them. Guy Dauncey explains. In the 1870s there was a surge in the numbers of self-help groups in the …
Mutual aid Read More
Normality: there can be no turning back, says John Barry. Like buses, crises (and the opportunities that can accompany them) seem to come in threes. First, we have Brexit and …
Time to be unreasonable Read More
Frances Coppola warns that looking back is not the best way to move forward During the Cold War, there was a genre of disaster fiction along the lines of “life …
Learning from the pandemic Read More
Silver linings Nigella Vigoroso-Heck looks forward to perfection “So. Here we are. The end of term. I have been truly humbled by the amount of work that you have put …
Silver linings Read More