In our guest blog Graham Teskey argues that COVID-19 might be changing the focus and urgency of the governance discourse, more in the last six months than anything else has done over the last decade. COVID-19, he says, seems to have put Governance at the heart of debates on development, but how has it changed the questions we ask?
Recently Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, launched his book Teaching Effectively with Zoom. It reminded me what a great Lecturer he was(and still is). His approach to teaching should be everyone’s approach to our jobs and to our lives. In this blog I share three lessons from Dan’s teaching and how they have influenced me in policy implementation.
Despite responding with the most drastic measures and implementing the biggest fiscal stimulus in Latin America, Peru has been one of the worst-hit countries by the pandemic. It would appear certain structural features of Peru have played a key role. In this blog I highlight five.
By Sandra Naranjo Bautista Being from a developing country, I was a bit sceptical of the power of government action. The absence of adequate government services made me doubt the possibility of having an impact from the public sector. At the time, my country was going through ten years of political and economic instability. During …
Hi, I am Sandra, I am behind Better Govs. I started Better Govs in an effort to put together ideas and resources for a better, more efficient and more effective public sector. After working as a cabinet minister and acting Vice President in Ecuador, and as a consultant with various international organizations, I have seen the transformative …
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