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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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Personal data and a digital manifesto
Back in 2006, I blogged saying that I am in favour of better use of data…
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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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Earned autonomy and the individual (spoof)
The UK General Election campaign could start as soon as next week, and it is already…
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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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