A couple of weeks back I posted about Saudia Arabia’s mass deportation of Ethiopian migrant labourers. Now, with 7,000 migrants returning on flights back to...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
The WTO Bali package’s thin offerings on development
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DFID in Russian Navy takeover shock
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What life’s actually like for Ethiopians in the Gulf
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How to defuse the twin climate finance / post-2015 finance for development timebombs (updated)
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A Post-2015 Calendar
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What Happens Now? – The Post-2015 Agenda After the High-level Panel
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What’s happening to global incomes
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One last thought
Via David Hodgson.
Justine Greening’s interesting new core messages
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Ten billion dollars for global public goods? Where do we sign?
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A Fox News EXCLUSIVE on post-2015
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McKinsey’s latest on scarcity
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