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The Framework-Industrial Complex

The phrase "military-industrial complex" describes a self-reinforcing system that continues producing more of something because the incentives favour production. Development…

Springfield Centre13/10/2026

MSD Detectives

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It’s elementary: What market systems development can learn from detectives

The systems development crowd has been busy. We have moved from facilitating to weaving, constraints to leverage points and relatively…

Springfield Centre29/09/2026

DCED Globe

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Proliferate the good stuff: MSD should spread but its core discipline shouldn’t get lost along the way

When a different approach to economic development began to emerge – one that put sustainability at the centre of design…

Springfield Centre09/09/2026

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The Trouble with BDS

This is blog 1 of 2 in a series drawing on lessons from Georgia’s Rural SME Development Project (RSMEDP)The traditional…

Springfield Centre06/07/2026

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Georgia’s ‘Growth Hub’ network supporting rural business

Georgia’s post-pandemic economic rebound has been strong, but its benefits remain unevenly distributed. Growth has concentrated in major cities, while…

Springfield Centre03/07/2026

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MSD Debate: Consolidate or Proliferate

Getting back to basics After nearly three decades of shaping, applying and advocating for market systems development (MSD), the Springfield…

Springfield Centre10/06/2026

SDG Wheel

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SDGs at 10: Sustainable Development Goals or Some Decorative Graphics?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) just turned ten. In human terms, that's old enough to know better. In development terms,…

Springfield Centre20/05/2026

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Signed, Sealed and (Still Not) Delivered

When Aid Ambition Meets Political Reality In 1970, the world’s richest countries gathered under the banner of the United Nations…

Springfield Centre14/05/2026

Packs of oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc

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Making markets work for the poo-er: from pilot to sustained scale in the health sector

Following our recent piece on pilots, we thought we'd share a real life example of how a 'failed' pilot can…

Springfield Centre28/04/2026

Illustrated guide to development pilots

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In defence of pilots

Spare a thought for the pilots. Not the ones in the cockpit. We’re talking about all those tests and experiments…

Springfield Centre23/04/2026