Secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Now new research shows that it was secularisation which came first.
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The devastating impact of mine closures could be avoided with economic and scientific interventions.
Increasingly, young people across Africa are taking up Nelson Mandela’s challenge of working to improve the lives of ordinary people.
‘The Mother Road’ is one step closer to becoming a National Historic Trail, which would allocate funds for struggling towns along the original Route 66.
Talk of the post-industrial society is mostly hype without evidence.
South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
Self-organisation initiatives taken by slum residents across Africa can help urban development.
If programs don’t challenge the structural causes of gender inequality, microfinance will just continue to reinforce poverty and inequality.
South Africa needs to review its four years decision to exclusively deliver housing through megaprojects.
Pioneering chefs from Bolivia to Brazil are stepping out of the kitchen and into public service. The ‘social gastronomy’ movement uses food to create jobs, prevent violence and boost economies.
The brewing US-China trade war is probably linked to the Chinese government’s attempts to revamp its industry.
After centuries of decline and depolulation, the Highlands have thrived under the EU. Now Brexit threatens to turn back the clock.
Rural development experts say the best way to help coal communities by is investing in people, infrastructure and a clean environment. Instead, President Trump’s budget cuts programs in these areas.
Breast cancer could kill 76,000 Indian women a year by 20220, according to new research.
A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.
South Africa should review its rural development strategy and land reform policy to win the fight against rising poverty.
Walt Rostow argued communism was incompatible with economic development and was influential in persuading Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to get more involved in Vietnam.
There is hope for a different kind of bank – that serves the public and shareholder good.
Most African cities are expensive, informal and non-industrial. This has produced unique socioeconomic and environmental risks that must be carefully considered in policy development.
There is a lot of potential in borrowing ideas from the startup world to complement foreign aid funding.
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Assistant Professor in Development Studies, University of Cambridge
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Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg and Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Osaka, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Rural-Urban Policy, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex
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Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Chair Professor of Business Analytics, University of Surrey
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
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Adjunct professor, Charles Sturt University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies; a CEPR Research Fellow; and Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford., University of Oxford
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Chair in Governance, University of Southampton