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A season in the Congo
My review of A Season in the Congo, a play about Patrice Lumumba by Aimé Césaire. Well worth seeing…
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Science to Deliver, but no ‘Science of Delivery’
Delivery requires iteration and adaptation rather than a “science”. Perhaps the time has come for a…
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Show your working (international aid edition)
Proposals for how DFID should improve the Bilateral Aid Review (BAR) by adopting the principle of…
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Should the UK set up a development bank?
Here is the evidence I gave (audio, plus part video) to the House of Commons International…
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Development Impact Bonds – a new business model for development?
The New York Times covers Development Impact Bonds and early results from the Peterborough Prison Social…
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How did the G-8 do on financial secrecy and tax?
The agenda for action to tackle illicit financial flows has passed an important threshold. While the…
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Dogfood and disruption
The new “Development Tracker” website launched in beta by DFID is disruptive in two important ways:…
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Development Impact Bonds: what do YOU think?
The Center for Global Development and our partner Social Finance has just published a big new…
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It’s the politics, stupid
One thing that the public knows, which many development experts apparently do not, is that poor…
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