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What to read on budget processes in developing countries?
Someone working on the budget process in a developing country contacted me with the following question:…
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Then may we boast
Michael Woolcock sent me this excellent quote from Thomas Paine: When it shall be said in…
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Do we want to do what really needs doing?
From La Vidaid Loca comes this excellent diagram which sets out the difference between what we…
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Sad farewell, exciting horizons
It seems like only yesterday that we moved to Ethiopia, but our three years has come…
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Show, don’t tell
Using a headline I borrowed from a smart colleague in DFID, there is an article by…
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Ten steps for meaningful aid transparency
The second of a pair of posts on aid transparency: this one looking at proposed next…
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Eight lessons from three years working on transparency
I’ve spent the last three years working on aid transparency. As I’m moving on to an…
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Global development challenges [podcast]
A new edition of the Development Drums podcast is now available online. Malini Mehra from the Center…
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Does the public care about development?
Development advocates have to make the case for aid. They are right to say that development…
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Answers on a postcard, please
Like Chris Blattman, I’ve just been ‘interviewed’ by email by a journalist writing a series of…
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