Lauren Policy
Lauren Gilbert, Andrew Gerard, CarolineLauren Gilbert on migration, progress, innovation, growth and development. Lauren Policy is pronounced to rhyme with foreign policy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 145 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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weekly link roundup (August 4, 2026)
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This week’s story is by , on the mystery of short Indian children.
- The Trump administration is considering adding a $100,000 fee to OPT. OPT is the program that allows non-citizen graduates of US universities to stay and work in the...
weekly link roundup (July 28, 2026)
A friend told me this week that he thinks my weekly links would still go out if the apocalypse were happening… and yes, maybe.
- is back! This week, we have on the two Robert McNamaras - escalator of the Vietnam War and general of the...
weekly link roundup (July 22, 2026)
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The Home Office has suggested that asylum seekers should pay a £10k fee to reimburse the UK state for part of their costs. Or… asylum seekers could just be allowed to work and not be kept in forced inactivity for a year?
- outlines wha...
What do we know about Science in Development? The state of the evidence base
This is a followup post to Andrew and Caroline’s previous post about science for development.
In February 2025, USAID was effectively shut down. Unsurprisingly, most of the attention focused on the immediate humanitarian consequences: heal...
weekly link roundup (July 15, 2026)
Link roundups may become sporadic as I deal with a family emergency, but also: in the words of Joan Didion, “every day is all there is”, and also every day includes slightly dumb link roundups.
- You know how suggested you “go forth and...
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Caroline is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research explores the cause and consequence of scientific capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
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