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Is funding for transparency, participation and accountability (TPA) decreasing? Who is funding TPA now? What specific issues and countries are they focusing on? I’ve...
It is about time we have another serious conversation about the accountability of researchers, research organisations and their funders. Back in September 2020, I...
This is article is challenge statement. It is meant to elicit a reaction. Please, do join the discussion. Evidence Action recently announced that it has decided to...
Fayyaz Yaseen is an On Think Tanks Fellow and Director of Accountability Lab in Pakistan. In this interview he discusses the origin of the think tank, the challenges it...
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on this blog that former U.S. Republican Senator Jim DeMint had founded a conservative think tank in South Carolina and invested $300,000 in it, showing...
Something I have found particularly interesting in the study of think tanks is that the often-mentioned causal relationship between civil liberties and the number of think...
Here are some ideas related to a piece of work I did on a recent trip to China. A key concern for many think tanks is how to protect and strengthen their intellectual...
A few weeks ago Goran Buldioski published a post on transparency and I commented on an article by George Monbiot on think tanks' transparency. Monbiot's article sparked some debate on...
Grupo FARO from Ecuador has published details about its funding for 2010 on its website. You can also click through to the full auditors report. The table they have published online,...
I'd like to return the favour and comment on some of Goran's musings. Let me start by contributing to his post on the accountability of policy research organisations or think tanks. Goran...
An article on Think Tanks from The Guardian: Brains for hire: the thinktank Britain's thinktank industry is the envy of the world. The US has institutions so large that they are like...