Picking up on the of Mice and Men soapbox which called for us all to make sure we’re doing something that makes a difference, I wanted to follow up with...
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The development world is abuzz with discussions about how ‘adaptive management’ is critical to more effective aid. Proponents argue that iterative but structured processes of decision making are needed if...
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This document is part of the Springfield Working Paper Series as part of the Springfield Centre’s active engagement in linking policy and practice in international development. The Springfield Centre is...
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More than 15 years since it was released, The Wire remains as relevant today as it was then. While the technologies give it a cultural time stamp, its dramatic exposition of...
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Ben Taylor Originally featured on globalpolicyjournal.com, April 2017 This summer, Global Policy and the Springfield Centre will host the inaugural summer school on Global Inequality and Development. This polemic piece...
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Why give aid? Respondents to that question fall into a number of different camps. As a crude typology, firstly, you have the moral crusaders such as Peter Singer, who believe...
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At the risk of simultaneously whinging about and perpetuating a phenomenon, Adaptive Management has recently filled the echo-chambers inhabited by those of us who like to blather on about ‘doing...
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The lack of evidence to support market systems approaches, and particularly attempts to achieve systemic change is widely cited in the literature (Humphreys, 2014). I’m not clear where the comparison...
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Ben Taylor, Sarah Barlow & Roger Cunningham Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Education is one of the most significant and persistent development challenges...
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Ben Taylor and Jason Donovan Originally published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance Vol. 27 No. 1, March 2016 Systemic approaches to development have, over the last decade, gone from a niche...
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