Duncan Green

The Narrow Corridor

Nobel prize winners Acemoglu and Robinson followed up their Why Nations Fail (2012) with The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (2019).  I was not impressed with this book. The core argument of this book is not new. It may be more philosophically grounded, but in 2012 Duncan Green wrote From Poverty […]

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How Change Happens

How Change Happens

Governments, activists, NGOs, politicians and development programs all want change. It is why donor dollars are raised and people protest in the streets. But, how much do we actually know, or reflect upon, how change actually happens – and to what extent is that embedded within how development works? “How Change Happens” (2016) by Duncan Green, […]

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Logan Cochrane

Logan is a 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 twenty 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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