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Assessment of the delivery of the Vietnam development report 2010 : modern institutions and its impact on policy debates around institutional reforms in Vietnam – final report

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Download the report at the World Bank website:  The Vietnam Development Reports (VDR) is a series of reports, which have been published by the World Bank resident mission since 2002, and focus on key development issues for Vietnam. The VDRs aim at tapping into existing knowledge, achieving an \’upstream harmonization\’ so that donors can engage with […]

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Policy entrepreneurs’ skills with a little bit of help from Carl Jung

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, in short , is a strategic planning tool that ODI’ RAPID programme has suggested for some years as a way to increase the chances of research evidence and knowledge to influence policy and development practice. One of ROMA’s steps focuses on the assessment of the skills that are considered useful

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Understanding the causes of the summer riots in England in 2011: how different forms of research evidence can help.

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London and other cities in England have been on fire for few nights in August 2011. Gary Young has described in an article in the Guardian Weekly how they resemble the one that took place in July 1967 in Detroit: ‘In the early hours of Sunday 23. July 1967, the police of Detroit raided an

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Personal Kanban and two simple rules to manage knowledge work

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1) Limit your work-in-progress; 2) Visualize your work. These are the two simple rules that are suggested in a very enjoyable book I read by Jim Benson and Tonianne De Maria Barry titled Personal Kanban. Mapping Work, Navigating Life. When I first came across the book, I found the second part of the title a

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A Study of the Asian Development Bank’s knowledge taxonomy

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A Study of the Asian Development Bank\’s Knowledge Taxonomy Arnaldo Pellini and Harry Jones In September 2010, the Overseas Development Institute was tasked by the Knowledge Management Center in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department  in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to conduct a study of ADB\’s knowledge taxonomy. The study aimed to explore, recommend,

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