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February | 2015 | AID LEAP

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A motley group of international aid bloggers, practitioners, and critics. Interested in impact, poverty, evidence, and throwing things off planes. Who protects Pakistan’s consulting industry? February 23, 2015. March 18, 2015. Former Deputy Chairman Planning Commission of Pakistan. Returned to Pakistan with a PhD from Harvard 3 decades ago. Overnment. He had ideas and wanted to work hard. In that era before cellphones. Luckily, donors offered. Those books he wanted to write, were buried. Donor consul...

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its the unsung heroes of DFID | AID LEAP

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A motley group of international aid bloggers, practitioners, and critics. Interested in impact, poverty, evidence, and throwing things off planes. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its the unsung heroes of DFID. June 22, 2015. Cringe-worthy from the get go, Rosamund Urwin’s Evening Standard piece. Starts by drawing an uncomfortable parallel between DFID’s go-getting CHASE team of humanitarian heroes and the Magnificent Seven. 8211; quick recap of the plot of the Magnificent Seven for those of us under 70:.

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Perspective: David Boaz on Partisanship, Intellectual Engagement, and Taking the Long View | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. Perspective: David Boaz on Partisanship, Intellectual Engagement, and Taking the Long View. April 12, 2013. This post is a part of a recurring series titled, “Perspectives on Think Tank Ethics and Governance.” Each Perspective post will feature lightly edited highlights from a personal interview. In this week’s post, David Boaz. The executive vice president of the Cato Institute. I think that from any think tank the work should be judged as the work, and it ...

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Partisanship | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. RSS feed for this section. Perspective: David Boaz on Partisanship, Intellectual Engagement, and Taking the Long View. April 12, 2013. This post is a part of a recurring series titled, “Perspectives on Think Tank Ethics and Governance.” Each Perspective post will feature lightly edited highlights from a personal interview. In this week’s post, David Boaz. The executive vice president of the Cato Institute. I think that from any think tank the work should be ...

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Perspective: Sarah Rosen Wartell on Ethics, Fundraising, and “Pay for Play” | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. Perspective: Sarah Rosen Wartell on Ethics, Fundraising, and “Pay for Play”. March 7, 2013. This post is a part of a recurring series titled, “Perspectives on Think Tank Ethics and Governance.” Each Perspective post will feature highlights from a personal interview. In this week’s post, Sarah Rosen Wartell. President of the Urban Institute. How do different institutional models raise different kinds of ethical questions? Inevitably, there are choices that ar...

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A Shilling on the Side | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. A Shilling on the Side. March 12, 2013. Buzzfeed’s Rosie Gray reports. And the San Francisco Examiner. Some of Trevino’s recruits were affiliated with think tanks at the time, including the Heartland Institute. The American Center for Democracy. And the Manhattan Institute. By Heartland’s Ben Domenech), nor do they appear to have used their think tank affiliations in their Malaysia bylines. Which raises the question: When is your night job a problem? It’s no...

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Participate! | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. Dear Policy Expert,. If you choose to participate in this study, information gained from your interview will not be publicly associated with your name or the name of any institution with which you are or have been affiliated. Please see the frequently asked questions section below this letter for more details about the process that we have established to preserve your privacy. Frequently Asked Questions about:. Am I obligating myself to do anything? What can...

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. What is Pay for Play? March 5, 2013. No think tank wants to be known as a pay for play organization, but the concept is rather like pornography. People think they know pay for play when they see it, but its necessary and sufficient conditions remain obscure. That’s too bad, because think tanks have a lively interest in determining exactly what pay for play ought to mean. You can’t make policies about something unless you can define it. And the Cato Institute.

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Debasing the Currency of Criticism | The High Horse

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A blog about think tank ethics and governance. Debasing the Currency of Criticism. April 10, 2013. Public policy research is often methodologically mediocre. You might think, therefore, that more methodological criticism would help! In order to determine whether someone is or isn’t engaged in it. External standards are often controversial because they reflect disputed moral, political, or aesthetic values. Because research is a complicated activity, its internal standards are disputed among experts and p...