Climate Talks In Paris: The Need For An Ambitious But Equitable Agreement

World leaders meet today in Paris, not to discuss terrorism, but to discuss another of our generation’s biggest threat, climate change. It is clear that already, when...

Climate Talks In Paris: The Need For An Ambitious But Equitable Agreement

World leaders meet today in Paris, not to discuss terrorism, but to discuss another of our generation's biggest threat, climate change. It is clear that already, when tempe...

Boosting Coherence To Make Poverty Eradication A Reality

I recently launched the 2015 edition of the European Commission’s report on Policy Coherence for Development — or PCD — that show...

Boosting Coherence To Make Poverty Eradication A Reality

I recently launched?the 2015 edition of the European Commission?s?report on Policy Coherence for Development?? or PCD ??that?shows that the European Union remains a PCD-fro...

Bond Forever

As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism...

Is Economic Policy Sexist?

Despite nearly 50 years of policy effort, the UK is still a long way from eradicating gender inequality. There has been progress on many fronts, but women are still far fro...

Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen?Sustainable Development Goals?were?agreed by 193 heads of state and gove...

Get Over Smartphones, Superphones Are Coming: Huawei

China’s telecommunication giant Huawei on Thursday said the next generation mobile phone called “superphone” will come out around 2020 and open ...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...