Changes to the Directors
Alex Duncan, one of the Policy Practice Directors who founded the Company 15 years ago, is today stepping down as a Director. He will continue to work actively through the Company to focus on his research, advisory and training activities. Alex has been instrumental in building The Policy Practice into one of the leading niche providers of political economy research and consultancy in the UK. We thank him for his enormous contribution and look forward to his continuing intellectual leadership of the Policy Practice.
We are pleased to announce that Neil McCulloch and Laure-Hélène Piron who have for some years been Principals have agreed to become Executive Directors and will join Andrew Barnett and Gareth Williams in managing the Company. Our objective is to remain at the cutting edge of applied political economy analysis, helping development practitioners think and work politically to achieve better outcomes.
Policy and Practice Brief 21: Pathways of Change
Our new Policy and Practice Brief by TPP Directors Gareth Williams and Neil McCulloch sets out the Pathways of Change framework, a practical link between political economy analysis and action. Using examples from Ghana and Thailand, it shows how external partners can support change driven by domestic actors, based on a realistic analysis of how change might happen.
Can we still achieve peace?
On the day US troops formally withdrew from Iraq, TPP Principal Niki Palmer asks if we can still achieve peace and suggests how to improve peacebuilding interventions.
Podcast: Subsidies and Social Protection - Reforms for a Sustainable Transition
Why are subsidies so difficult to reform, even when more effective alternatives exist? In this podcast by Socialprotection.org, TPP Director Neil McCulloch examines the political, institutional and economic challenges that have made subsidy reform one of the most complex issues in social policy.