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Is ‘thinking and working politically’ compatible with results? Should advocacy ever be done in secret? Big questions at the LSE this week. | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Which governments are doing best/worst in the fight against hunger and undernutrition? July 4, 2014. July 4, 2014. Is ‘thinking and working politically’ compatible with results? Should advocacy ever be done in secret? Big questions at the LSE this week. July 4, 2014. This week I found myself on a fun panel at LSE. Discussing ‘can politics and evidence work together? LSE), Ros Eyben. IDS) and Steven Rood. Has anything changed since then? Managing large bureaucracies c...

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The link between Income Inequality and Public Services is stronger than I realized (thanks to Emma Seery for putting me straight) | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Are ‘serious games’ a better way to prepare for climate change than scenario planning? April 3, 2014. 8216;How DFID Learns’. Or doesn’t. UK aid watchdog gives it a ‘poor’ (but the rest of us would probably do worse). April 3, 2014. The link between Income Inequality and Public Services is stronger than I realized (thanks to Emma Seery for putting me straight). April 3, 2014. Over many years, we have also been making the case. A new paper published today. Cash-transfe...

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Local First: an excellent (and practical) counterweight to the more top-down versions of ‘doing development differently’ | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. The new World Development Report (on mind, society and behavior): lots to like, but a big fail on power, politics and religion. December 17, 2014. 2 leaving developing countries for every $1 going in – big new report on the state of global financial flows. December 17, 2014. Local First: an excellent (and practical) counterweight to the more top-down versions of ‘doing development differently’. December 17, 2014. Identifying and supporting local capacity. 2 Harnessin...

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The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: a big new book by Matt Andrews | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Is it time for a rethink on the definition of aid? May 3, 2013. How to end foreign aid and avoid a punch-up. May 3, 2013. The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: a big new book by Matt Andrews. May 3, 2013. There’s nothing like an impending meeting with the author to make you dig out your scrounged review copy of his book. So I spent my flight to Boston. Sorry the full title is just too clunky). And luckily for the dinner conversation, I loved it. Firstly,...

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Complexity 101: behind the hype, what do we actually know? | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. How can Complexity and Systems Thinking end Malaria? November 5, 2013. Should India be sending a rocket to Mars when 40% of children are malnourished? November 5, 2013. Complexity 101: behind the hype, what do we actually know? November 5, 2013. Complexity week continues with this excellent stocktake from the ODI’s Harry Jones. Who’s got a new guide out on ‘ Managing Projects and Programmes in the Face of Complexity. 8216;). Part two tomorrow. Paradigm, hype, or lens.

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Positive deviance: spotting the hidden innovations in development work | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Small farmers in development: a great new overview. February 8, 2011. On Al Jazeera's sofa with David Frost and Carl Lewis. February 8, 2011. Positive deviance: spotting the hidden innovations in development work. February 8, 2011. I just learned some new jargon always a heady sensation. Positive deviance. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? And it describes something really interesting and, I suspect, quite important. In partnership with Plan Mali. For the building of...

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Which is more important – changing policies, or changing social norms and behaviours (and how are they connected)? | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Can alternative economic indicators ever be any good if they are devised solely by experts? August 22, 2014. August 22, 2014. Which is more important – changing policies, or changing social norms and behaviours (and how are they connected)? August 22, 2014. It can be a little disorienting when you stray from your intellectual silo, and read stuff from other disciplines. Sometimes it is entirely unintelligible, but it. Diverging on their different Galapagos islands.

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Links I Liked | From Poverty to Power

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Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Sport can reach places where other aid and development programmes struggle. So why are we ignoring it? April 20, 2015. Is a Data Revolution under way, and if so, who will benefit? April 20, 2015. April 20, 2015. China and the West: Not bad for a text written 113 years ago [h/t Branko Milanovic. The road to development is paved with bad inventions’. Excellent Ben Ramalingam blog on Innovation. Chris Blattman riffs on a Dani Rodrik interview. You may also like. Please ...