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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

Adaptive Management Global

Does management of market systems approaches need to adapt?

A study into how contractual and management features influence implementation of ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ projects. by Victoria…

Springfield Centre13/04/2018

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Smartwashing Development

First it was sustainability. Then it was scale. Now it’s smart. My frustration with over-loved and under-defined S-words in development…

Kate Fogelberg07/04/2017

Article Global

How Populism is Distorting the Aid Debate

Why give aid? Respondents to that question fall into a number of different camps. As a crude typology, firstly, you…

Ben Taylor05/04/2017

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Binary choices, Obaman bubbles, Trumpian times … oh, and the future of UK aid

By Alan Gibson ‘Divided’ times? ‘Fractured’ might be a better term. Trumpian – or one of its many variants –…

Alan Gibson07/02/2017

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Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

By Kate Fogelberg Amongst all of the other news stories about the American election, I wouldn’t be too surprised if…

Kate Fogelberg06/02/2017

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Making Markets Work for the Poo-er: Systemic Sanitation Problems Require Systemic Sanitation Solutions

By Kate Fogelberg I am fresh off the plane from Springfield’s semi-annual “Making Markets Work” (M4P) training programme. I first…

Kate Fogelberg13/01/2017

Article Global Measuring Sustainability

Who Wants to Give Forever?

The Springfield Centre, November 2016 This paper re-examines the use of the term ‘sustainability’ in development and the consequences of…

Springfield Centre01/11/2016

Article Entrepreneurship Global

Businesses behaving badly: why it matters, why it happens and what we do about it

In many markets we find ‘institutional biases’ - consistent patterns of behaviour among businesspeople, consumers or governments which affect how…

Kevin Seely30/09/2016

Matters for Debate

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

Signed, Sealed and (Still Not) Delivered

Does management of market systems approaches need to adapt?

Smartwashing Development

How Populism is Distorting the Aid Debate

Binary choices, Obaman bubbles, Trumpian times … oh, and the future of UK aid

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

Making Markets Work for the Poo-er: Systemic Sanitation Problems Require Systemic Sanitation Solutions

Who Wants to Give Forever?

Businesses behaving badly: why it matters, why it happens and what we do about it

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