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Climate change – is that a small light at the end of the long tunnel?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 5 July 2013

If you’re looking for bad news on international development, then look no further than climate change. Energy-related carbon emissions have reached an all-time high. Global warming effects are coming through more quickly and more severely than anticipated. There is a growing risk that advances in human development will be thrown into reverse gear, with increased exposure to drought, floods and extreme weather reinforcing poverty traps.

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G8 leaders must do more than talk a tough game on multinational tax avoidance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 June 2013

'Eight years on Britain has changed. Comeback gigs are so common they’re practically passé and politicians appear reluctant to talk about aid at all. If you stopped the next person you saw in the street and asked them what we might expect from the summit, the answer would probably be ‘what summit?’.'

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One small step for democracy, one giant leap for Pakistan?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 May 2013

Pakistan has emerged on the other side of its first attempt to transfer power from one civilian government to another through the ballot box (relatively) successfully.

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Kenya election 2013: key challenges to consolidating democracy

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 28 February 2013

'Yes, the Kenyan election is momentous and important... but social transformation and democratic consolidation is not instantaneous. This election is just the first step along what is bound to be a bumpy road to democracy.'

In this interview Alina Rocha Menocal, Research Fellow in the Politics and Governance programme at ODI, discusses the forthcoming elections in Kenya with Sarah Jenkins, Aberystwyth University.

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Institutions, yes, but which ones?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 16 November 2012

What does it take to combat global poverty?

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Hurricane Sandy brings climate change crashing onto the White House lawn

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 3 November 2012

Hurricane Sandy has parked the issue of climate change on the lawn of the White House whether the candidates competing for the keys like it or not.

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Goals, means and good intentions: UK political conference analysis

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 October 2012

The autumn will bring with it a new contest in the House of Commons as Justine Greening and Ivan Lewis line up across the despatch box to discuss the development issues of the day. Over the last two weeks a sizeable chunk of the NGO community and one or two others, including myself, decamped to the provinces in order to hear the newest thinking from the latest pairing.

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Thinking Politics: Think Tanks and Political Parties in Latin America

Publication - Books or book chapters - 23 September 2009

Enrique Mendizabal and Kristen Sample

This publication investigates the characteristics of the historical relationship between think tanks and political parties in Latin America.

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Dime a quíen escuchas… Think tanks y partidos políticos en América Latina

Publication - Books or book chapters - 23 September 2009

Enrique Mendizabal y Kristen Sample

ODI e International IDEA reúnen en este volumen un conjunto de estudios que ayudan a comprender las características particulares de la relación histrórica entre think tanks y partidos políticos en América Latina.

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