On Marketing in International Development
Picking up on the of Mice and Men soapbox which called for us all to make sure we’re doing something…
Ben Taylor13/04/2018
Springfield Working Paper Series #6 – Designed to Fail
The development world is abuzz with discussions about how ‘adaptive management’ is critical to more effective aid. Proponents argue that…
Ben Taylor11/04/2018
Gridlock: The Failure of Global Governance for International Development
This document is part of the Springfield Working Paper Series as part of the Springfield Centre’s active engagement in linking…
Ben Taylor02/03/2018
The Wire as a market systems analysis of urban poverty
More than 15 years since it was released, The Wire remains as relevant today as it was then. While the technologies…
Ben Taylor17/01/2018
How Populism is Distorting the Aid Debate
Why give aid? Respondents to that question fall into a number of different camps. As a crude typology, firstly, you…
Ben Taylor05/04/2017
Jeopardy: I am helpful jargon in securing buy-in for data-based decision-making, effective programme delivery, and navigating the aid realpolitik A: What is Adaptive Management?
At the risk of simultaneously whinging about and perpetuating a phenomenon, Adaptive Management has recently filled the echo-chambers inhabited by…
Ben Taylor19/09/2016
The System of Evidence
The lack of evidence to support market systems approaches, and particularly attempts to achieve systemic change is widely cited in…
Ben Taylor01/06/2016
Market systems development in education? An experimental case from Nigeria
Ben Taylor, Sarah Barlow & Roger Cunningham Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Education…
Ben Taylor01/03/2016
New approaches to old problems: systemic change as a unifying objective
Ben Taylor and Jason Donovan Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Systemic approaches to…
Ben Taylor01/03/2016
Data Driven Development Decisions
Mistake number one is calling it monitoring or evaluation or results. The data collection task is one that is integral…
Ben Taylor29/10/2015