The LSE blogosphere is a community of LSE staff and external contributors sharing posts on a host of global topics. Here's a selection of the latest posts:
If Chile wants to advance towards a society that gives all children equal opportunities to develop, the government should look to evidence-based educational policies that respect international human-rights law, write María Isidora Palma (LSE Social Policy) and Vicente Silva (Human Rights Centre, Essex University).
The economic and financial crisis that started more than ten years ago was not only devastating for the Italian economy, but also jeopardised a key mechanism for achieving political consensus: Brussels’ role as an external anchor for economic policies that are in the common interest but are socially and politically difficult to accept.
Digital rights in Uganda have become a battleground between President Museveni and his high profile critics. But the more the regime pushes back, the more admired these critics have become. Amid deepening concern for Uganda’s freedom of speech, can the regime sustain its attacks?
Absolute mobility – the estimate of the fraction of young individuals who earn, in real terms, as much or more than their fathers at the same age – has fallen by more than 20 percentage points in the decade since the Great Recession.
In 2017 and 2018 US forces based in Afghanistan mounted air raids against drug processing facilities. While it was hoped that targeting these facilities would starve the Taliban of revenue, new research from David Mansfield concludes that this has not been the case.
The dominance of scholars from the global North is widespread, and this extends to the student curriculum. Data on reading lists shows large authorial imbalances, which has consequences for the methodological tools available in research and allows dominant paradigms in disciplines to remain unchallenged.
The career you entered when leaving LSE might not be the one you continue with as your life progresses. Find out how to plan and manage a successful career change with advice from LSE Careers.
Pakistan’s cities have some of the worst recorded levels of pollution in the world. LSE alumna Maryam Naqvi argues that the Green Schools initiative of the NGOs like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) can promote civic environmental knowledge among the young in Pakistan and help create a generation with an entirely different outlook to the country’s environment.