It’s the (political) economy stu…

Posted by Patrick Moriarty on May 31, 2011 · 5 Comments 

Thanks to the colleague who sent me the link to this interesting blog-post from the Center for Global Development: ‘an object lesson in the gritty difficulties of translating evidence into policy’. In summary: the fact that worming kids had been rigorously and gold-standardly (yes – an RCT!) proved to be really useful is, apparently and … Continue reading →

Category evidence, Uncategorized, WASH

Evidence schmevidence

Posted by Patrick Moriarty on May 16, 2011 · 1 Comment 

A delightful – if unverifiable – rumour has it that top staff of ‘a leading philanthropic donor’ are not allowed to travel together on the same plane: the loss to the world of their collective brainpower in case of a sudden accident being too much to bear.  That said donor is a champion of ‘evidence … Continue reading →

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