Writing/Web Clips
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From my Oxford MPP
System Down: Government IT and the healthcare.gov disaster (multimedia)
August 2015 | My take on a Gimlet Media Reply All podcast. Submitted as my Oxford summer project report. View the multimedia version here. Or listen to the audio-only podcast here.
Relatedly: How I got a summer gig at a top podcasting network - check out the cached version of heygimletmedia.com.
Academic writing:
- Clean India / Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) recommendations [policy memo]
- Regulating Bitcoin: overview of international regulations & best practices [short report]
- Whistleblowing & just cause [applied philosophy essay & related drawing/figure]
- Applying big data to Chinese electronic medical/health records [technical report]
- Financing Africa's infrastructure gap [short report]
On finance and banking
The next generation (read: online) bank
12 Nov 2014 | Goodbye wire transfers and physical branches, Hello robo-advisers and Bitcoin? via Prodigy Finance blog Read on>
Delivering on Africa's promise by filling the skills gap
17 May 2013 | Thoughts on the 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa. via Prodigy Finance blog. Read on>
Impact investing: The search for an ethical return
7 Feb 2013| via Prodigy Finance blog. Read on>
How the UK government can support new models of banking
1 Mar 2013 | Prodigy Finance's response to the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards' request for commentary. Blog post here and published input here.
On climate change & rural development
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Jan 2012 | How to support smallholder farmers through climate change: a summary of CGIAR knowledge. via Environmental Science & Policy 15(1). Read on>
An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research
Apr 2011 | Synergies and trade-offs in mitigating and adapting to climate change. via Experimental Agriculture 47(2). Read on>
Gender, climate change, agriculture, and food security
July 2012 | A CCAFS training-of-trainers (TOT) manual to prepare South Asian rural women to adapt to climate change. Read full manual here >
Climate analogues: Finding tomorrow's agriculture today
Dec 2011 | Identifying statistically similar climates (analogues) to learn and test climate adaptation techniques. CCAFS Working Paper No. 12. Read full paper here >
More money, less food?
5 May 2011 | On the Indian food security puzzle. via CGIAR CCAFS blog. Read more >