#Brexit, the populist surge and the crisis of complexity
Is policymaking becoming too complex? What does this mean for evidence-informed policy making?
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LSE podcasts I liked
Being back in Finland and having to fix things in the house has given me an opportunity to listen again to the always very interesting LSE Public Lecture podcasts. The effects and implications of Brexit and the election of President Trump dominate the discussion at the moment but they are not the only themes. Here
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The three components that can help system thinking in development programmes
As I reread Duncan Green’s blog about an interesting conversation we had over a coffee few weeks ago in Brixton (How might a systems approach change the way aid supports the knowledge sector in Indonesia?), it occurred to me that I could add something. ‘Systems’, he writes, ‘evolve through the endless churn of variation, selection
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What are we learning when we learn about Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)? (Part I)
Written by Arnaldo Pellini, Endah Purnawati and Siti Ruhanawati For the last three weeks I have met on with two colleagues, Ana and Endah, to discuss PDIA. We are going through the modules of the PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results – Part I online course which Matt Andrews, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, and Salimah
Ten years have passed since the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: how are we doing?
Listening to a lecture of Nicholas Stern feels like being on the USS Enterprise travelling at warp speed, such is the scale of the consequences linked to climate change and global warming he describes. This is how I felt when listening to his LSE public lecture The Stern Review +10: new opportunities for growth and
The ‘demand’ side of evidence-based policy making: why and how. Two great days of discussion and sharing in London
I posted this blog a week or so ago in which I wanted to summarise my takeaways from a great two days conference I attended recently in London: Evidence Works 2016
What does data innovation mean for traditional social science research?
Pulse Lab Jakarta posted today on Medium a blog I have written with Andrew Thornley about the implication for social science research of data innovation. Hope you enjoy reading it. Data innovation and data analytics offer an unprecedented opportunity for expanding the sources of evidence that can inform policy-making. But is data innovation threatening traditional
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Floods are wicked problems
I went for a walk in a kampung near Kemang Timur, in Jakarta, last Sunday. After few minutes it started to rain quite hard. I sat under the roof of a school and waited for the rain to stop. It rained for about 15-20 minutes.
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