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Till Bruckner reviews and presents highlights of a bestselling book in Germany written by journalist Udo Ulfkotte, which discusses the consequences of think tanks being...
Think tanks' transparency is not think tanks' responsibility alone. Their funders are responsible for it , too. International development funders could go a long way by...
I gave a speech at the ACFID Universities Network’s conference in Sydney in late November 2013 that challenges the need for an Aid, or Development, Sector. This...
Kelly Bay, Cecilia Perla and Richard Snyder undertook, back in 2008, a study of the way foreign funding affects social science research in Peru. Its findings are quite...
A week or so ago I wrote about an initiative that I think is worth paying attention to; if it works we'll be onto something, if it doesn't there will be lots of lessons to...
IDRC has made a rather interesting claim: Canadian support to researchers in the 1970s and 1980s Chile kept ideas alive, quite literally. Few scholars were more under threat than social...
A few years ago, the BBC showed a series of programmes on 'the toughest places to be ...'. One of these shows was about the toughest place to be a midwife and it...
It has now become obvious that funding for research in developing countries is increasingly provided through global or regional policy research programmes. These...
A recent discussion on the EBPDN Africa on-line community prompted a debate on the capacity of researchers in Africa. Awuor Ponge from IPAR forwarded this article...
Doug Saunders has written a very interesting column in The Globe and Mail: An unlikely path to aid: Paying to set up think tanks. In it he presents the idea of funding...
‘Capoeira mata um’, or perhaps more accurately, ‘capoeira foi morto por um’ – at least on one sunny day last summer. Now if you’re like 99.9% of readers of...
Gyaneshwar Singh commented in this blog’s Submit a Request page that during his research he found that: … there was always a question in mind that though public...