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Conversation with Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military…

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Parlamento 2030

Parlamento 2030 is an innovative tool created to track, collect, and provide information from national parliaments related to Agenda 2030. The tool is designed to overcome the challenges of the…

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Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War

This month, the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is diving into How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson! The live conversation between Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson will…

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Conversation with Keisha N. Blain: Until I Am Free

During this session, Dr. Keisha N. Blain discussed her new book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America. A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual…

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Exclusion and inequality in South Africa

South Africa has generally experienced economic growth since its transition to democracy in 1994, but has not seen the type of attendant gains in welfare one might have hoped for. These have been…

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Leveraging Korea's Experiences

This is the concluding chapter on the SDGs and Korea’s development experience. We have seen that democracy has been serving in Korea as the major driver of Korea’s sustainable development…

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Beyond the Miracle: Democracy & Development

Democracy Compels a Balancing of Development. Democratization has restored civil rights to all people and opened social dialogue to help balance the nation’s development path through various…

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Macroeconomic Context of Diminishing Returns to Labor: Social Democratic Model

How is it that some societies have been able to keep inequality low despite the pressures of these technological changes which tend to widen inequality? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…

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High-Energy Democracy

In the tenth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger describes three sets of innovations to create a "high-energy" democracy that enables ongoing…

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Q&A: Are there trade-offs between democracy and decisive industrial policy?

Are there trade-offs between democracy and decisive industrial policy?

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Public Participation and Democracy, Part II

This video is part of Module 8: How can cities and urban areas be governed better to make them more sustainable? Public participation and democracy is needed. This video is licensed under the CC…

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Public Participation and Democracy, Part I

This video is part of Module 8: How can cities and urban areas be governed better to make them more sustainable? Public participation and democracy is needed.

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Engaging Citizens

In this chapter, Paul Collier looks at why it matters to build a critical mass of citizen understanding so that countries can take decisions that harness resources for sustained prosperity with…

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Democratization and Political Participation: The Situation Room

In this chapter, Elizabeth Prügl discusses an initiative that has proliferated in Africa called the Women’s Situation Room. It responds to election violence associated with the process of…

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