Sustainable development

Can Trade Promote Development?

Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton wade through the debates and evidence in “Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development” (2005). The book aims to “describe how trade policies can be designed in the future with a view to helping the developing countries” including that “liberalization needs to be managed carefully – the task […]

Tags: #Comparative advantage #Development #Policy #Sustainable development #Trade

Thought Provokers Oct 30

Funded MA: Education for Sustainable Development

Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Start Date: September 2017 Salary: $12,000/year stipend (with possibility of further scholarship opportunities) THE PROJECT Sustainable Development cannot be achieved through one sector alone, yet education in particular is seen as a vehicle to move us towards this goal. While there is a plethora of literature that examines the […]

Tags: #Education #Environmental Studies #Sustainability #Sustainable development

Uncategorized Oct 16

Post-doc: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development

Full-time, 24-month appointment jointly in the Department of Geography and the Institute for Great Lakes Research (IGLR). The initial appointment will be for two years; continuation of the appointment is subject to funding and contingent upon satisfactory performance review. The successful candidate will conduct research mainly at the CMU main campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The […]

Tags: #Environmental Economics #Geography #Sustainability #Sustainable development #Water

Jobs Oct 11

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.

Logan Cochrane