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What can we learn from randomized evaluation? (podcast)
You may have heard talk about randomized evaluation as a way to understand the impact of…
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Achieve complex goals obliquely
I’m not sure how I missed John Kay’s article in the Financial Times on March 20th,…
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Spare a thought for exporters from poor countries
In among the many problems caused by the decision not to fly in the ash-cloud, spare…
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Development blogs you should read
It would be invidious to recommend particular blogs, and what’s the point of having a blog…
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Fungibility and sloppy thinking
The term fungibility has been misunderstood and misused in development circles, so creating confusion that leads…
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Should we worry about fungibility of health aid?
A new article published in The Lancet by Chunling Lu with Chris Murray, Dean Jamison and…
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The coming collapse of the development system?
Clay Shirky, who writes about the social and economic effects of the internet, draws on Joseph…
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Variation and selection: improving the development system
All effective complex systems got that way by a process of evolution. Evolution requires both variation…
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How can aid be improved?
Over at The Atlantic Community there is a discussion this week on how aid can be…
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Priorities for improving US Development Policy
Ray Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, writes on the Modernizing Foreign Assistance blog that US foreign…
