GDP RIP?
For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used by just about every country in the world as the measure of wealth and progress. In the new Policy Forum Pod,...
September 2016 32 minutes
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Getting the measure of global poverty
From Bill Gates to the United Nations, everyone wants to end poverty. But what does ‘poverty’ actually mean – beyond simply having a low income? How does it affect men and...
October 2018 1 hour
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Global policy at the coalface
In 2016 the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals as a blueprint for global development. With 17 Goals divided into 169 targets, this blueprint is a complex policy challenge – not...
July 2018 45 minutes
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Globalisation and the search for common ground
On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp - authors of The Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters - join us...
March 2022
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