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Policy and power struggles: How do policies get through?

Explore how power struggles shape public policy and learn to navigate complex global challenges with SOAS’s MSc in Public Policy and Management.

How a study break helped my career in the public sector

Shireesh Mohan Khare shares his experience of taking a career break to study MSc in Public Policy and Management and how it helped him in his role.

What does the success of semiconductors mean for investment, markets, and industrial policy?

Few technologies are as crucial in today’s world as semiconductors. Semiconductors are likely to play a central role in public policies that aim to stimulate research, the competitiveness of national firms, and successful international trade in the years to come.

Investing in justice: a scholarship for future human rights lawyers

We spoke with the first recipient and donor of the Beena Sondhi LLM Scholarship at SOAS about its impact in opening doors for Indian lawyers committed to human rights.

When one thing leads to nothing: Cultivating industrial ecosystems in an era of GVCs

Postgraduate student Shiran Illanperuma reflects on the challenges of industrialization in an era of Global Value Chains. Using China and Sri Lanka as contrasting examples, he argues for the need for activist industrial policies to incentivize domestic value addition and the participation of local firms in the Global South.

Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa

The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST) held its first bi-annual conference, themed “Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa.”

Commitments and momentum of COP27

Enthusiasm and momentum surrounded COP26, however that excitement quickly fizzled out as world leaders, activists and decision makers started to arrive in Egypt. But was COP27 a complete failure?

Why economic growth alone does not make a better, healthier society

Policies that see economic growth as the sole outcome, from which all else will follow, will inevitably fail. History teaches us that investing in the social fabric is a critical component of development.

Transforming Finance in the Era of the Climate Crisis

Responding to the climate emergency and reducing growing inequalities are two key challenges of our age. Tackling these challenges requires a rapid transition to a net zero carbon economy. Such a transition won’t be achieved without the implementation of a wide range of radical policies as part of a transformational Green New Deal.