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If we want better development, cut the UK aid budget

The UK aid budget is central to debates on development effectiveness. This article explores why reducing the UK aid budget…

Alan Gibson17/03/2014

Adaptive Management Agriculture Paper Southern Asia

Making Sense of ‘Messiness’

The Springfield Centre and Samarth-NMDP, February 2014 This paper provides a critical practitioner insight into how a large, multi-sector market…

Springfield Centre20/02/2014

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Why DFID’s proposed new Start Up! programme is bunkum and should be ditched

When a donor issues a proposal of dubious development worth, the usual practice of contractors is to keep schtum, hiding…

Alan Gibson17/02/2014

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So why does development fail? Here’s why…

“Why does development fail?” To a familiar and fundamental question arrives insight from an unusual source with, potentially, far-reaching significance.…

Alan Gibson13/02/2014

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Taking the “P” out of M4P?

Development loves acronyms. Development loves alliteration. It loves to dumb down, distil and disseminate decidedly dodgy diatribes of development determinants.…

David Elliott31/01/2014

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If we want better development, cut the UK aid budget

Making Sense of ‘Messiness’

Why DFID’s proposed new Start Up! programme is bunkum and should be ditched

So why does development fail? Here’s why…

Taking the “P” out of M4P?

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