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Man selling bread in Cairo, Egypt

A perfect storm for developing countries

Interrelated economic and political crises in poorer countries are putting millions of lives at risk, but mitigation is possible. Leading economies must refrain from beggar-thy-neighbor policies and use their combined resources in the IMF and the World Bank to act quickly and unconditionally to avert disaster.
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Martin Williams and Nana Agyekum-Dwamena at the 2017 Challenges of Government Conference

Turning academic insights into practical lessons: civil service reform in Ghana

A new case study from Martin Williams demonstrates how we are bringing academic theory to life through interactive case teaching.
Case Centre on Public Leadership
Aerial photo of Accra, Ghana

A balancing act of management approaches

What can we learn from Ghana's civil service about the links between organisational performance and the way in which civil servants operate under different management practices?
Public sector
A passenger wearing protective equipment awaits the departure of a speedboat in Manaus, Brazil in 2020. IMF / Raphael Alves

Tracking COVID-19 policies across Brazil: the tracker’s largest subnational project

Brazil was the first subnational project of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. It has been going since the summer of 2020, amid some challenges and many successes.

Maria Luciano

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Julia Sampaio

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A passenger wearing protective equipment awaits the departure of a speedboat in Manaus, Brazil in 2020. IMF / Raphael Alves

Tracking COVID-19 policies across Brazil: the tracker’s largest subnational project

Brazil was the first subnational project of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. It has been going since the summer of 2020, amid some challenges and many successes.

Maria Luciano

,

Julia Sampaio

,

COVID-19
Germany and COVID vaccines: too cautious?

Restrictions and mandates for the unvaccinated - the new normal?

Vaccines have transformed the world of pandemic policy and the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker is adapting. The team explain the changes in details.

Helen Tatlow

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Thomas Hale

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Emily Cameron-Blake

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COVID-19
Shanghai, China

How Chinese provincial governments responded to COVID-19 waves driven by the Delta and Omicron variants

How long will China continue to pursue suppression of COVID-19 transmission? The team who collect and analyse China's data for our COVID-19 Government Response Tracker argue that a change of strategy is not likely.
COVID-19
Martin Williams and Nana Agyekum-Dwamena at the 2017 Challenges of Government Conference

Turning academic insights into practical lessons: civil service reform in Ghana

A new case study from Martin Williams demonstrates how we are bringing academic theory to life through interactive case teaching.
Case Centre on Public Leadership
Aerial photo of Accra, Ghana

A balancing act of management approaches

What can we learn from Ghana's civil service about the links between organisational performance and the way in which civil servants operate under different management practices?
Public sector
Man selling bread in Cairo, Egypt

A perfect storm for developing countries

Interrelated economic and political crises in poorer countries are putting millions of lives at risk, but mitigation is possible. Leading economies must refrain from beggar-thy-neighbor policies and use their combined resources in the IMF and the World Bank to act quickly and unconditionally to avert disaster.
Global cooperation
A passenger wearing protective equipment awaits the departure of a speedboat in Manaus, Brazil in 2020. IMF / Raphael Alves

Tracking COVID-19 policies across Brazil: the tracker’s largest subnational project

Brazil was the first subnational project of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. It has been going since the summer of 2020, amid some challenges and many successes.

Maria Luciano

,

Julia Sampaio

,

COVID-19
Guantanamo Bay protesters

Student expertise on display in new case study for the MPP classroom

New case study draws on student's national security experience to examine the case against torture at Guantanamo Bay.
Case Centre on Public Leadership
Man works from home

Tip of the iceberg: public sector leaders on the shift to remote work and what more is to come

The People in Government Lab’s Sally Leach shares public servants’ perspectives on creating a hybrid working culture built on understanding staff and their needs – and one expert’s thoughts on the pressures and opportunities around government contracts in this shift to a new way of work.
Public sector