UNU-MERIT Blog John Nash stands in the same line as Adam Smith, Ricardo, Walrus and Keynes in having shaped economic thinking. But he was even more. Unlike the works of other giants of economic philosophy, his work has profoundly influenced…
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UNU-MERIT blog republished in Our World of the United Nations University 2017•12•01 Shyama V. Ramani and Eduardo Urias United Nations University Today on World AIDS Day, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé reminds us that one of the targets of the…
UNU-MERIT BLOG – Reprinted in Inter Press Service China, Once the Final Resting Place for Half the World’s Trash, Bans Waste Products By Shyama V. Ramani Shyama V. Ramani is a Professorial Fellow at the Maastricht Economic and Social Research…
ESD or Education for Sustainable Development is a framework developed by UNESCO to develop knowledge, skills, values and behaviours in youth and people for sustainable development under the present challenging conditions, including that of climate change. It recognises that to…
A few times in my life, I have collaborated with remarkably talented Bachelor’s students to refine and expand upon their work to transform it into a paper or a report. This policy brief on solution designs to urban flooding with…
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Changemakers Addressing The Global Sanitation Challenge – A Report on the Webinar Organized by Friend In Need India Trust in collaboration with SITE4Society, UNU-MERIT on November 19, World Toilet Day 2020 The Sustainable Development Goals Report (2020) notes that we…
A Report on the Solution Design Pitches to The Sanitation Challenge Proposed In the Event Organised by Friend In Need India Trust along with SITE4Society, UNU-MERIT on November 19, World Toilet Day 2020 UNU-MERIT Blog The Sustainable Development Goals Report…
UNU-MERIT Blog How a home-grown social innovation sought to contribute to COVID-19 containment A human-networked education campaign as a crisis response By Shyama V. Ramani There is an English saying: “Necessity is the mother of invention”, but this is…
UNU-MERIT Blog Governments worldwide have pledged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. But given the scale of the task, not even national governments can manage alone. This has sparked a new phenomenon: whereby non-governmental players – from…