How to write an award-winning thesis
What’s the secret behind writing an award-winning thesis? What are the criteria? What does it take? The chair of EfD’s Research Committee, Vic Adamowicz, knows the answers. He will announce this year…
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”We provide suggestions on how to mitigate climate change”
Jan Steckel leads the Climate and Development group at the prestigious MCC in Berlin. He emphasizes that mitigating climate change can entail development trade-offs that need to be understood, and…
“We can open doors to policy makers”
Urvashi Narain is a Lead Economist at the World Bank in Washington DC. According to her, EfD and the World Bank can benefit greatly from working closer together. Meet one of four prominent keynote…
“Women’s work-life is not a women’s issue”
She is dividing her time between the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, the International Growth Centre’s India program, and the Institute of Labour Economics in Bonn. Currently, she is leading…
Prof E Somanathan appointed to Lancet Task Force
Prof. E Somanathan has been appointed as a member of the newly formed Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Green Recovery. The Task Force will focus on how economic recovery plans can support the…
How to reduce plastics in the oceans
EfD researcher Fredrik Carlsson is interviewed on the topic "Mapping the path of plastics to reduce ocean emissions". The article, which is published on the University of Gothenburg's website, gives…
Yes, we can manage fisheries
Fisheries management reforms were actually carried out and we are already in many places solving the problem through fisheries policies. The big problem areas are where there is no effective policy at…
Tanzania policy makers and researchers descended into Morogoro town for two days of training and interaction on sustainable development
Environment for Development (EfD) Tanzania together with the Centre for Behavioral Studies (CBS) held a two-day (8th-9th September 2020) workshop for the purpose of policy interaction and training…
Passion drives last year’s winner of Gunnar Köhlin’s Award
EfD’s Annual Meeting is approaching and the award jury is busy evaluating all the qualified nominees for Gunnar Köhlin’s Best Master Thesis Award. In the meantime, let’s meet last year’s winner…
Protecting Ghana’s Artisanal Mining Sector – the role of mining cooperatives
Artisanal and Small-Scale gold Mining (ASM) is an important economic activity that has provided jobs and supported the livelihoods of many rural Ghanaian communities for over a century. Mineral sector…