Brian Levy
Professor at SAIS and University of Cape Town
Brian Levy teaches at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and the University of Cape Town. He worked at the World Bank from 1989-2012, where he was part of a leadership team that worked to integrate governance into development strategies. He also has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books and articles on the interactions between public institutions, the private sector and development – including Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). He has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University.
Blogging on: Future Development, People, Spaces, Deliberation
- Pragmatism and its discontents
- Two cheers for the 2017 Governance and the Law World Development Report
- Keeping the lights on– workable and unworkable approaches to electricity sector reform
- Obamacare and the ‘good governance standards shuffle’
- Washington’s Metro — the costs of carelessness
- The Great Gatsby government discourse — carelessness and its consequences
- #4 from 2015: Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
- Blog Post of the Month: Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
- Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
- Reframing democratic development — vision, strategy and process
- Developing democracies can thrive — messily
- Transformational fantasies, cumulative possibilities
- Multiple Pathways – How "Why" Matters
- South Africa's democracy: Complexity theory in action
- When democracy and inequality collide
- Education as liberation
- Power to the Middle Classes!
- On developmental states, Arab springs, and democracy’s discontents
- Getting beyond the “every country is unique” mantra
- Feasible policy: Beginning with things as they actually are
- Moving the governance agenda forward: A new blog on development
Blogging on: Future Development, People, Spaces, Deliberation
