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Nationalisation in Saudi Arabia
Some books are available in book shops globally and others only in local or regional markets. The Doha International Book Fair is a great place where regional publishers come together, and where the local and regional books are available. One example was “Nationalisation and Labour Market Policies in Saudi Arabia” (2023) by Abdullah Al Fozan, […]
Tags: #Abdullah Al Fozan #Labor Market #Nationalisation #Nationalization #Saudi Arabia
Explaining Successes in Africa
Erin Accampo Hern’s “Explaining Success in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart” (2023) is a great teaching book (upper undergraduates or generalist graduate students). The book is easy to read, presents a clear methodology, and integrates theory / variables / data in a most-similar most-different approach. In a class, this could be the foundation, with […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Erin Hern #Explaining success in Africa #Theory #Things Don't Always Fall Apart
The Power of Positive Deviance
In 2010 Pascale, Sternin and Sternin published “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems”, published by Harvard Business Review. I am not sure how this book landed on my desk, but takes an outlier sampling approach to be utilized in a self-driven learning context for social change (and in […]
Tags: #Outliers #Positive Deviance #Social Change #Social systems #Sternin
Travesty in Haiti
I cannot recall where or how I was directed to “Travesty in Haiti: A True Account of Christian Missions, Orphanages, Food Aid, Fraud and Drug Trafficking” (2008) by Timothy Schwartz. The book appears to be self-published, and Paul Farmer is quoted on the back as saying “This book knocks it out of the park” (assuming […]
Fields of Gold
Focusing on two country studies of the USA and Brazil, Madeleine Fairbairn’s “Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush” (2020) explores the financial side of the global rush for land. This book provides unique perspectives on a widely written about topic (often under the land grab or large-scale land acquisition frame, I’ve also used […]
Tags: #Field of Gold #Finance #Land grab #Land rush #Madeleine Fairbairn
The Horn of Africa
One of the Horn of Africa’s long-time scholars, Christopher Clapham, wrote “The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay” (2017), with Oxford University Press. A lot of the book, expectedly, focuses on Ethiopia. And, unfortunately for Clapham, the world of Ethiopia and the Horn has changed dramatically since. The book is accessible, which is often […]
Tags: #Clapham #Ethiopia #Horn of Africa #Somalia #Somaliland
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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