Duncan Green’s Tweets

Dec 13, 2017

In academic seminars, 'Men are > 2.5 times more likely to pose questions to the speakers.This male skew was observable only in those seminars in which a man asked first question. When a woman did so, gender split disappeared'. CHAIRS PLEASE NOTE FIRST Q TO A WOMAN - EVERY TIME.

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Sep 3

A favourite joke brilliantly told by legendary Trinidadian stand-up JOHN AGITATION. “A 9yr old boy asks his Father…what is Politics?”

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Pakistan’s flood fallout, Somalia’s famine declaration, and trouble ahead in Tripoli: The Cheat...

Max Roser

@MaxCRoser

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More and more countries achieve to decouple economic growth from CO₂ emissions. Just made this new chart that shows the evidence for 25 countries. Growth is up, emissions down.

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Pakistan’s flood fallout, Somalia’s famine declaration, and trouble ahead in Tripoli: The Cheat Sheet: thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/09/0 (

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thenewhumanitarian.org

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.

Sep 3

Development Nutshell: audio round-up (28m) of

@FP2P

posts, w/b 22nd and 29th August

Development Nutshell: round-up (28m) of FP2P posts, w/b 22nd and 29th August - From Poverty to Power

Schoolchildren Deserve Free Lunch | by Kevin Watkins - Project Syndicate

Schoolchildren Deserve Free Lunch by

@Kevin_Watkins_

@ProSyn

project-syndicate.org

Kevin Watkins shows why universal school-meal programs have become even more important for improving educational outcomes.

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Amruta Byatnal

@amrutabyatnal

Opinion: Decolonizing development is key to avoid path to irrelevance

"As... people’s movements challenge power, development groups remain disengaged and lost in the bubble of “development,” missing a relevant role in these historic times."

@AmitabhBehar

makes a case for increased political engagement by NGOs in

@devex

devex.com

Oxfam India's Amitabh Behar argues that the development community needs to confront some deeply political questions about its architecture, particularly how power is distributed, to avoid sliding...

Timeless tips for any campaigner - Thoughtful Campaigner

Timeless tips for any campaigner from

@MrTomBaker

. My favourite: 'Avoid being a missionary or a martyr'.

thoughtfulcampaigner.org

They say that you shouldn’t “judge a book by its cover”, well in the case of ‘101 Ways to Win An Election‘by Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield it’s advice I’d give about the title. This isn’t just a book...

The significance of the first WHO-approved African malaria medicine

Kenyan pharmaceutical company becomes the first African manufacturer to get prequalification from the World Health Organization for a key antimalarial drug

devex.com

The drug is used to help prevent malaria infection among children and pregnant people, who are among those at high risk of infection, including in the WHO Africa region.

glineq.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-poli

'By the standards of statecraft, he must be judged harshly, like one of the most extraordinary failures in history. By the standards of humanity, he must be judged much more kindly'. Best obit I've read on Gorbachev, from

@BrankoMilan

‘Powder kegs waiting for a spark’: rising costs threaten global unrest, say risk analysts

‘Powder kegs waiting for a spark’: rising costs threaten global unrest, say risk analysts

theguardian.com

More than half the world’s countries at heightened risk of conflict and instability because of soaring food and energy prices

Dina D. Pomeranz

@DinaPomeranz

Sep 1

What can those working for evidence-informed policy learn from

@ProfEmilyOster

's books on how to use more scientific insights for parenting?

@shrutis_patel

draws five interesting lessons:

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Using Evidence: What Can We Learn from a Book about Parenting? Today's @fp2p from @shrutis_patel frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/using-evidence

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Using Evidence: What Can We Learn from a Book about Parenting? Today's

from

@shrutis_patel

Using Evidence: What Can We Learn from a Book about Parenting? - From Poverty to Power

Guest post from Shruti Patel Emily Oster, an economist, mother of two, and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people, wants parenting to be treated like a profession. How? By getting them to...

Jeff Mosenkis

@mosenkis

Lots of researchers owe a debt to a champion of good research

. Now the king of corruption, the sultan of shade, the prince of payola, the boss of bakshish, the Lord of leakage, reflects on his 20 years considering the role of corruption in the aid world

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Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption. @PeterEvans_Guv reflects on his move out of FCDO/DFID to run the @U4_ACRC anti-corruption centre frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/goodbye-govern

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

@U4_ACRC

A guest Blog from our Director

asks whether you: 1⃣worry enough about corruption in your sector (health, education, climate.) 2⃣worry for the right reasons (including risks of fueling systemic corruption & bad politics) 3⃣whether you spend enough to tackle it.

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Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption. @PeterEvans_Guv reflects on his move out of FCDO/DFID to run the @U4_ACRC anti-corruption centre frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/goodbye-govern

I'm thinking maybe a hunting accident?

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BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

· Aug 31

Queen will not appoint next UK prime minister in London, but will stay in Balmoral to do it, in a break from tradition, Buckingham Palace says bbc.in/3AXUu9M

Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption.

reflects on his move out of FCDO/DFID to run the

@U4_ACRC

anti-corruption centre

Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption - From Poverty to Power

Guest post from Peter Evans, who has left the UK Government in order to become more irritating (his words – see last para) In December 2021 I left the UK Government after 20 years as a governance...

Environmentalist Elizabeth Wathuti: ‘Perhaps I had something President Biden really needed to hear’

Environmentalist Elizabeth Wathuti: ‘Perhaps I had something President Biden really needed to hear’

theguardian.com

Kenya’s rising climate star tells how her speech at Cop26 grabbed a world leader’s attention, and urges policymakers to go beyond mere pledges

Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption.

reflects on his move out of FCDO/DFID to run the

@U4_ACRC

anti-corruption centre

Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption - From Poverty to Power

Ellie Mae O'Hagan

@elliemaeohagan

Time to watch the Gorbachev Pizza Hut advert

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Book Review: Gambling on Development, by Stefan Dercon

@gamblingondev

. Today's

Book Review: Gambling on Development, by Stefan Dercon - From Poverty to Power

Ah the summer reading backlog. A hammock, sunshine (lots of it) and some good books. Top of my reviews list this year was Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose, by Stefan...

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Oxfam Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply

Do you want to be part of a team working to deliver our campaign messages to parliament? There's an exciting job opportunity to be our next Government Relations Adviser! Apply by 5 Sept: jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/uk-gov #CharityJob

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Book Review: Gambling on Development, by Stefan Dercon

@gamblingondev

. Today's

Book Review: Gambling on Development, by Stefan Dercon - From Poverty to Power

Ah the summer reading backlog. A hammock, sunshine (lots of it) and some good books. Top of my reviews list this year was Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose, by Stefan...

GELI

@the_geli

In less than a week, we are heading to Panama with our "Influencing for Senior Leaders" course. Here is our lead facilitator

Context Analysis with LSE Professor in Practice Duncan Green

giving us a glimpse into context analysis and why it's just like a trip to the brain gym. 🧠🏋🏾‍♀️

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"Context Analysis is like a trip to the brain gym."

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 's Professor in Practice Duncan Green tells ...

buildingstatecapability.com

Insights from Applying PDIA in the Education Sector. Excellent post, full of insights for change-makers pursuing insider strategies

Insights from Applying PDIA in the Education Sector

written by Salimah Samji Over the past three years, we have engaged on research titled “Understanding How Education Systems Build Capability, Innovate and Improve their Practices” as part of the...

Ten efforts to decolonise aid

Vidushi Yadav

@vidushiy

Aug 29

Changing power requires us to see the world differently. During the

@Oxfam

Power Shifts project, I set out to co-create a ‘virtual gallery for shifting power’ that visually represents some of the biggest debates around ‘shifting the power’ in the development & aid sector. (1/7)

'Ten efforts to decolonise aid': very good and thought-provoking list from

@HebaJournalist

. Good to see

@oxfam

involved in several of them thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022/0 (

@newhumanitarian

)

thenewhumanitarian.org

Changing practices around funding, leadership, narrative and identity.

Aug 28

What to do with big squash? Recipes only pls.....

Chris Porter

@humanitarianHop

Aug 25

Humanitarian adviser vacancies - FCDO. Great roles in DRCongo) & UK, plus potential future vacancies in the UK or overseas in the coming year. Apply separately to DRC (tinyurl.com/2p9cszhk) or current/future roles in the UK/overseas (tinyurl.com/36b5szv8), or both.

Aug 25

Why you have to care about elephants in Botswana. Last of the summer series of student blogs on

Summer Student blog and campaign: Why you have to care about elephants in Botswana - From Poverty...

top student assignment on the case for elephant conservation

Aug 24

Summer Student vlog and campaign: Plane to Train UK: Incentivizing and Promoting Domestic Train Travel. Today's

Summer Student vlog and campaign: Plane to Train UK: Incentivizing and Promoting Domestic Train...

My students have the option to vlog or blog on their project – developing a campaign strategy about something they are passionate about. Here’s Jenna Thoretz’ vlog on her campaign to get people to...

Aug 23

Edinburgh Festival great but slowly sinking under sea of trash. Strike bc 5pc pay offer compared to 10pc inflation. #EdFringe22

Jaume Fortuny

@fortuny

Aug 23

Student Summer vlog and campaign: Tackling period poverty in France frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/student-summer via

Student Summer vlog and campaign: Tackling period poverty in France - From Poverty to Power

Next up in this series of posts from my LSE activism students, Alexia Fageroux, who went with a sound-off vlog option for her assignment. Full project on which her vlog is based here. Next week, back...

Mystery of half-billion year old creature with no anus solved

Aug 22

Ominous sign just opposite Scottish Parliament....

Clickbait title 101.

A 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus had puzzled scientists.

@MichaelWarbur17

Aug 16

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE with the aptly titled “Didn’t It Rain” at Wilbraham Road Railway Station in Manchester as part of a live, televised and extraordinary gig in 1964.

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Jaume Fortuny

@fortuny

Aug 18

Summer Student blog and campaign: Why you should change your mind about the start-up that invented the Covid vaccine frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/summer-student vla