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Indonesia Etc.: complexity and development amongst cultural and temporal diversity

Leave a Comment / political economy / Arnaldo Pellini

Is it possible to build a nation as complex as Indonesia before fully understanding its complexity? What is holding Indonesia together despite its diversity? Is decentralization good for Indonesia? These are some of the questions that were asked last week at the Habibie and Ainun Library in South Jakarta during the presentation of the new […]

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\’If not us, then who?\’ Climate change and the devastation left by typhoons Haiyan in the Philippines

Leave a Comment / political economy / Arnaldo Pellini

Typhoon Hayian was the 25th typhoon that hit the Philippines this year. I lived in the city of Dumaguete in the Philippines for four years and left last May. My family is still there and we were talking on Skype about the typhoon that was approaching the Filipino coast. Dumaguete lies just a couple of

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Also for President Obama it is a matter of judgment about the evidence on Syria

Leave a Comment / political economy / Arnaldo Pellini

President Obama spoke few hour ago to the Nation. In a 16 minutes speech (here) he made his case for the need to conduct airstrikes against Syria following the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21 which the Obama administration blames on Assad\’s government. In a blog published last Monday by The Broker

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The limits of evidence

Leave a Comment / knowledge to policy / Arnaldo Pellini

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?

Leave a Comment / systems thinking / Arnaldo Pellini

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

Leave a Comment / knowledge to policy / Arnaldo Pellini

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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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change Article – ODI Opinions 153, August 2011 Authors: Arnaldo Pellini Ramalingam et al. (2008), describe development plans, strategies and goal setting as ‘attempts to picture how things work in that country and provide an illusion of control’. The reality, however, is that development is not

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