🚨 We've launched this year's Cutting Edge Series with a guest lecture by Prof Ha-Joon Chang and Prof Richard Kozul-Wright on A New New International Economic Order (NNIEO) for a New Global Economy.
📺 Catch the replay on our YouTube channel this Monday!
Here’s what a ruling party official says about the state of health services in Uganda.
They turn a blind eye to the damage, so long as it keeps feathering their nest 🙄
Patients can only crowd a place where they expect service. That crowding is good faith in a govt facility. I would have become worried if the facility had been abandoned.
@emmanuel_dombo You cannot conflate the financial inability to afford better (private service) with deliberate demand for state health services. Unlike you, and your colleagues living in a bubble, the ordinary Ugandan doesn’t have a choice.
@kasujja Pure lack of exposure! Patronage politics of awarding contracts to the known who know nothing. How can Gen Wamala, an exposed man with a decent taste, sit comfortably in what looks like a set for the next episode of “the Teletubbies”? Shameless!
💥New: Commercial platforms thrive on high switching costs to retain users. As Bluesky gains traction, Mark Carrigan warns that academics could find themselves ensnared by the same market dynamics that once trapped them on Twitter
🔗 https://t.co/ZWaPWYRxjn
On election night, hundreds of people and several panels of experts came together at LSE to discuss and analyse the big issues behind the election results: the state of British politics, healthcare, the economy, foreign policy and democracy at large. 👇
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What makes sceptical people trust messages from strangers?
Many Ugandans 🇺🇬 purchased herbal medicines in response to Whatsapp rumours about #COVID19 cures, explained @LizzieStorer & @anguyoa for the @AfricaAtLSE blog.
#SocialMediaDay#SMDay
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📚 Calling all residents of Jaipur, #India!
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What a great honor to present the FES supported book "How Africa Trades" by @DavidLukeTrade of @AfricaAtLSE to H.E. Sen. Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria @NigeriaGov.
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It is criminal that, even with a generation surplus, West Nile is yet to be plugged into the national grid. The legendary enterprise and graft there needs to be powered up!