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Blog Post
July 03, 2023
I’m writing this one several thousand feet in the air as I return from my first-ever trip to DC (and indeed the US, as absurd as that sounds)—a flying visit of two days, packed with meeting and almost no time to see the city, so forgive me if this feels a) rushed, and b) tired; that will be because ...
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IN PERSON
12:00—12:00 AM Multiple times and dates (July 8th-July 12th)
June 14, 2023
The IHEA congress is the only global forum for health economists to engage around the latest methodological developments, present recent research findings, and explore the implications of this research for health policy and practice.
Blog Post
June 19, 2023
When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in September 2020, he signaled the dissolution of the Department for International Development (DFID) after nearly 25 years. In a new series, to be published over the next 18 months, we will look at the wa...
POLICY PAPERS
June 19, 2023
Looking back on the run up to the creation of DFID in 1997, those involved tend now to tell two somewhat conflicting stories: first that it was simply “in Labour’s DNA” to uplift development and give it a separate voice in government, and second that the creation of DFID was very much about the circ...
Blog Post
June 16, 2023
Just hours after I clicked send on the links last week, the curtain began to draw on one of the most chaotic eras of modern British politics, with Boris Johnson’s huffing and whining resignation as an MP. After discovering that we was about to be censured for lying to Parliament (a serious brea...
Blog Post
June 09, 2023
Apparently, New York had the worst air quality in the world yesterday, which made me think of my childhood in Hong Kong, when there were days you had to chew before inhaling. As Alex Tabarrok points out, air pollution is really bad—for health, productivity and cognitive development, but it’s also tr...