D’Maris Coffman, Graham Sianjase, Priti Parikh and I are intending to publish a journal paper in Environmental Research Letters under the title above. For this article, we make available the primary data our team of enumerators (Johanna Mwila, Beauty Nkosha, Tapiwa Janda, Nandi Ngwenye and Mundia Kayamba) helped us collect in the above Excel file….
Churchill the racist – understanding why his plinth was defaced
Bengali lives did not matter to Churchill.
Explaining Rwanda’s prioritisation of rural electrification over rural clean drinking water through institutional path dependency
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier Volume 54, September 2020, Pages 186-201https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.001 Highlights • Rural electrification as an economic asset had not been questioned until 2017; • Categorisation of potable water as an amenity persists; • The World Bank pursues a path dependent approach to rural development; • This has been uncritically perpetuated to different…
How to stop deforestation
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Thu 7th May 2020 The Liberal International British Group together with the Paddy Ashdown Forum organised a webinar on 27 April 2020 hosted by BrightTALK on how to stop deforestation. 428 people registered for the event from around the world. The aim of the discussion was to learn how to stop deforestation in…
Increasing tariffs to prevent another electricity crisis in Zambia
International Growth Centre blogs Shivani Haria and Imaduddin Ahmed | 1 April, 2020 Zambia’s state-owned power utility company, ZESCO, is consistently struggling to meet demand, plunging Zambia into one electricity crisis after another. The Government of Zambia’s acceptance of ZESCO’s application to increase tariffs is a step in the right direction. Access to reliable power…
Interview with BBC Stories on being Muslim and political
Muslim vote: Political chat ahead of the election 10 December, 2019 | BBC Stories
Interview on BBC Asian Network on foreign policy
With one hand, our government gives, and the other, it takes. The Liberal Democrats’ manifesto calls for a presumption of denial of arms exports to human rights priority countries; British arms sales to Saudi Arabia contributed to the killing of 85,000 Yemeni children & endangerment of 12.3M. Just aired on BBC Asian Network trying to…
What have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain?
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Tue 26th November 2019 – 8:35 am What besides leading the campaign against Brexit have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain? John Stuart Mill, a Liberal MP, was the second of his House to call for women’s suffrage, in 1832. He also warned against tyranny of the majority against minority groups, and…
The Continuing Story of Brexit
Interviews with Trialeti TV & Through the News Oct 22, 2019 | Irina | Through the News “Trick or treat?” might be the classic Halloween question but on October 31, 2019 the festivities are expected to take a different turn at least in one place in the world – in the United Kingdom the big…
What the Lib Dems have done for Britain
Presented on 22 Oct in Tbilisi
