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Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
External assessors don’t always have a full view of a country’s creditworthiness.
Should the world’s less developed nations be part of the “degrowth” movement? The debate involves considerations of economic dependency, neocolonialism and ecological debt.
White people that sweep into developing countries to “save” people of colour are widely derided, including by donors. Does this translate to less charity donations?
Though the Global South tends to experience higher disease burdens, most public health decisions and knowledge generation are centered in the Global North.
Ensuring that ego and prestige of the Global North does not get in the way of on-the-ground results in the Global South will be the key to effective social impact investing in the years to come.
Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
Middle-aged people in equatorial regions have lived through the most perceptible warming in their lifetimes. But many others may experience unrecognisable changes in their local climate later in life.
Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
After years of censorship, opposition parties have to – all at once – rejoin public debates, reorganise and remotivate demoralised supporters.
Child sponsorship is often billed as a significant way of improving children’s lives. However, sponsorship is based on narratives that fail to address the role of rich countries in global poverty.
Does the Global North have a moral responsibility to protect and compensate those in the Global South that disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change devastation?
A major lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to decolonize transnational governance so that the world is better able to handle both future and current global crises.
Rwandan authors have long been sidelined in debates about Rwanda and other conflict-affected societies.
Contributing to global knowledge, from the lens of local experience, can lead to solutions to universal problems such as inequality and climate change.
From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
Climate change science dominated by knowledge produced in the global North cannot address the particular challenges faced by those living in the global South.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Professor, Njala University
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Professor, Political Science and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Prof of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford
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Global Studies Associate Fellow, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Development Studies, University of Agder
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor of Demography, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, Gender and International Politics, University of Bristol
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Post doctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Aarhus University
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Science Officer in the Durban office of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Technical Support Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Reader in Law, King's College London
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Head: Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit, EThekwini Municipality; Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu Natal and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Design, UCL, Fellow 2017, Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) – RFIEA