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mechanism for generating financial returns, both as an incentive for and an investment in innovation. 2 The end goal of humanitarian innovation should be positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people affected by crisis, but while ‘[t]he presence of social returns to knowledge investments both through positive externalities and public goods generates an economic rationale for public support for such investments’ ( Frontier Economics, 2014 : 10), such an economic rationale does not exist for
downturn, rather than problematise informality, developmentalists now praise it as an authentic and valued expression of community mutuality and gender inclusion ( Becker, 2004 ). Through such progressive reinscription, the informal sector has been repackaged through projects like ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ economics ( Prahalad, 2006 ) or ‘inclusive capitalism’ as an eligible and eager development and business partner. Consider, for example, UNDP’s (2008) homely appraisal of NGO-assisted informality as a low-cost welfare infrastructure for
Introduction All over the globe, fascism, racism and xenophobic nationalism are resurfacing in what we once thought of as ‘respectable’ democracies. Following a particularly bleak weekend at the end of October 2018 (the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, reports of worsening famine in Yemen, Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the murder of eleven worshippers at a refugee-harbouring synagogue in Pittsburgh), my colleague Dr Sara Salem of the London School of Economics tweeted: ‘It’s difficult watching political scientists scrambling to
? Critiquing the Shift from “Smart” to “Smarter Economics” ’, Progress in Development Studies , 16 : 4 , 314 – 28 . Chant , S. and Sweetman , C. ( 2012 ), ‘ Fixing Women or Fixing the World? “Smart Economics”, Efficiency Approaches, and Gender Equality in Development ’, Gender
the genocide. In Sacrifice as Terror , Christopher Taylor explores the logic of sexual violence within Rwandan cultural conceptions of Tutsi beauty and seductiveness ( Taylor, 1999 ). Both Jennie Burnet’s Genocide Lives in Us and Marie Berry’s War, Women, and Power are focused primarily on women in post-genocide Rwanda, but both nevertheless provide greater detail on the experience of women in the genocide that remains consistent with Des Forges’ analysis ( Berry, 2018 ; Burnet, 2013 ). In a series of publications, Philip Verwimp applies the tools of economics
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Circulation of the Idea of Distinction in International Law ’ (PhD thesis), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3803/ (accessed 3 February 2019) . Taithe , B. ( 2016 ), Danger, Risk, Security and Protection: Concepts at the Heart of the History of Humanitarian Aid ’, in Neuman
). Mülhausen , M. , Tuck , E. and Zimmerman , H. ( 2017 ), Health Care under Fire: The New Normal ?, London School of Economics and Political Science and Chatham House . Oliver , K. ( 2001 ), Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
course of events, recording his excitement at being able to follow on an underground radio from Paris the historic events of the city’s liberation on 25 August 1944. A career as a research and statistical officer with the national airline Aer Lingus meant that economics increasingly engaged his attention, leading to an academic appointment in the subject at UCD in 1959, subsequently gaining his PhD. As his interest in economics grew, he had come to question the continuing worth of the protectionist policies that the country had followed since the 1930s. Increasingly
established with the ASEAN and, to a lesser extent, with Australia and New Zealand. The EU’s ties with countries in the region are substantive, covering a range of policy sectors, including trade and economic, political and security matters, public diplomacy, development 4Introduction assistance, democracy and human rights promotion and global governance issues. This is particularly noteworthy in trade and economics. The EU and Asian countries are amongst each other’s most important trade partners. In 2015, the Asian partners, defined as Asian members of the ASEM