Publications on Market Systems Development

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Reducing vulnerability matters. But what do we do about it?

Risk-taking is often glamourised as the route to riches. We sometimes forget that risk-taking can as easily make you poor. A…

Kevin Seely13/05/2014

Global Guidance Measuring Systemic Change

Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond: a framework for managing and measuring systemic change processes

The Springfield Centre, March 2014 Systemic change is a process. Outcomes and indicators are defined as part of the process.…

Springfield Centre20/03/2014

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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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Farmer groups: Why we love them, why we do them and why they fail

Someone once told me that I couldn’t be a real agriculturalist until I had at least one failed chicken project…

Tim Stewart07/01/2014

Article Global Research Guidance

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

Article Global MSD in New Sectors Water & Sanitation

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

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Reducing vulnerability matters. But what do we do about it?

Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond: a framework for managing and measuring systemic change processes

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?

Farmer groups: Why we love them, why we do them and why they fail

Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’

The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation

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