The Moral Philosophy of Systemic Change
As a break from bluff and bluster, I thought I might retreat in this soapbox to a bit of moral…
Ben Taylor04/06/2015
Fiddling While Rome Burns
Let’s stop this. No really, let’s stop it. I’m not the first to say this. Indeed, it’s not the first…
Ben Taylor22/05/2015
Book Review: Easterly’s ‘The Tyranny of Experts’
Development through the eyes of a tyrant I would never be so bold as to claim to be an expert…
Ben Taylor27/10/2014
Book Review: Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’
By Dr Ben Taylor The Irrelevance of Inequality in Aid Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and much of…
Ben Taylor27/10/2014
Who’s invited to the wedding in private sector engagement?
Private sector engagement. In development, it’s buzzier than a wasp in a jam factory. For the ever growing number of ‘systems…
Ben Taylor08/08/2014
Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’
Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org Like British sportspeople and the overuse of acronyms, evidence-based policy and systemic change are…
Ben Taylor11/11/2013
The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation
Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org People die without clean water. People get sick without effective sanitation - from which…
Ben Taylor23/10/2013
We are the Jargonistas: Effective communication in ‘development’
Everyone hates jargon, in principle at least. Jargon is antonymous of motherhood and apple pie. But if nobody likes jargon,…
Ben Taylor15/02/2013