All posts tagged "Global trends"

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  Top Indian educationalist urges focus on universities, power supplies and high-tech manufacturing

  India must focus on expanding higher education, energy production and high-technology manufacturing if it is to retain its robust economic growth, the former vice chancellor of Delhi University told an

  • Posted April 22, 2016
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  Senior officials from Canada and Japan agree to collaborate on counter-terrorism

  Canada and Japan have agreed to strengthen cooperation on counter-terrorism at a meeting involving high level officials this week. The agreement was made during so-called ‘2-plus-2’ security talks held in

  • Posted April 20, 2016
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  Australia and UK sign agreement to collaborate on digital transformation

  Australia and the UK have signed an official agreement committing both governments to share information and help each other in developing digital public services. Both governments’ digital teams – Australia’s

  • Posted April 13, 2016
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Refugee wave into Germany offers chance to boost nation’s productivity, says OECD

  The recent wave of refugees into Germany represents an opportunity to increase productivity in the country, but only if the new arrivals are integrated properly, the OECD’s secretary general Angel

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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  Looking after number one: prioritisation in government

  Governments find it notoriously difficult to agree a manageable list of top priorities. Dan Hymowitz of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, which has worked with governments across the continent,

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  How to get things done in government: the art of delivery

  Tony Blair’s African governance charity is sharing what it’s learned about policy delivery in a series of reports. Matt Ross talks to series author Dan Hymowitz “Delivery units are spreading

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  A family reunification dilemma for the EU

  Many of the asylum seekers heading for Europe hope to bring their families over later – so governments are squeezing refugees’ rights to family reunification. But Yermi Brenner finds that

  • Posted March 23, 2016
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  Managing the EU Migration Crisis

  The recent influx of migrants into Europe from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia has presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the Eurozone crisis. The

  • Posted March 23, 2016
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  U.S. departments get direct authority to hire experts who can help fight Zika virus

  Several U.S. departments have been granted the power to hire directly in a bid to recruit needed health, biology and crisis management experts in the fight against the Zika virus.

  • Posted March 8, 2016
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