The Broker online just published a blog I have written to reflect, from the point of view of the influence that evidence can have on policy decisions, on the the debate in the British parliament about the involvement of British troops in airstrikes against Syria. Here is the link to the blog: The limits of evidence
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Is there a knowledge of the future? This is a rhetorical question, for there is no knowledge of the future. There cannot be a knowledge of the future, as the future is not yet there, it does not exist when we think about it now, in this moment. Yet, we who work in development (and
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In this blog published by Better Evaluation I write about my experience in a project supporting research centres in Australia to monitor their impact on health policy in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. I reflect on the main challenges and make some suggestions for others looking at the M&E of policy influence. You can find
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You may have faith or not. You may be religious or not. You may follow the church precepts or not, it does not matter. The announcement of the Pope’s resignation as of 28. February is something that will be in the history books for many years (centuries) to come. Growing up in Italy you just
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Prof. Mario Monti was nominated senator for life in late 2011 by the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano. This move allowed our president to assign to Prof. Monti the task to establish a new government after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi at the time when Italy was on the brink of default (October 2011). Prof. Monti’s
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here\’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see
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The newspaper La Repubblica is conducting a investigation about the responsibilities within the Department of Civil Protection in the event of the earthquake at l\’ Aquila. Here is what is emerging from the investigation and analysis of the documentation (now public) collected by the judges: ‘It \’s the end of March 2009, the city of Abruzzo hostage for four months of shocks measuring up to 4.1 on the Richter scale