Blog Post 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
Adaptive ManagementGlobalPaper 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
Development effectivenessGlobalPaper 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
Blog Post 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
ArticleGlobal 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
Blog Post 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
ArticleGlobalMeasuring Systemic Change 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
ArticleEducationMSD in new sectorsWestern, Northern & Central Africa 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
ArticleGlobalMSD in new sectors 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
Blog Post 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