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Innovation, complexity and development
A shortened version of this article was published on the Guardian Development website on 28 January 2011.
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Born to shine
Save the Children has today published a new report, <a href=”http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_14725.htm”>No Child Born to Die: Closing…
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Malawi success and donor fallibility
On the Oxfam blog, Max Lawson has an excellent guest post telling the story of how…
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Seven tips for new runners
Lots of people decide to start running at this time of year, usually to lose weight,…
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Visibility is not the same as transparency
Here is part of my piece on the Guardian website today welcoming moves from the US…
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Economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa
A perennial question in development economics is whether economic growth, by itself, is enough to reduce…
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The new bottom billion [podcast]
Andy Sumner has published a new paper which argues that the global poverty problem has changed because…
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Development 3.0: is social accountability the answer?
Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank Chief Economist for Africa, describes in an important new blog post…
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Pulling up the ladder
During the mass migration between the middle of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the…
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Tech tips for development workers (4): online services
This is the fourth post in a series providing non-technical advice about affordable and practical IT for…
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