With decades of experience working with international donors, Alex Thier lists three key lessons to effect change and build capacity in fragile...

David Atkin, of MIT, discusses what the withdrawal from globalisation will mean for developing countries.

In days of massive protests in Chile, students skipped school to protest only when a critical mass of students they knew also skipped school

Instead of censoring or banning social media, the Chinese government uses it to surveil protests, monitor local officials, and disseminate propaganda

Fostering an environment in which citizens do not demand uncensored information is critical to effective internet censorship in China

Evidence from Senegal shows that the length of legal pre-trials can be reduced whilst not impacting quality of decisions

A door-to-door information campaign in Turkey unintentionally polarised the electorate over their vote in a policy referendum

Resource-rich countries do poorly when they have resource-rich neighbours, why? Possibly due to increased conflict.

Redrawing subnational political boundaries potentially reduces interethnic tensions yet also can create new ethnic divisions that exacerbate conflict