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Think tanks in Latin America are mostly dependent on private and foreign funding, while governments don’t have a policy toward funding them and the social sciences...
Both Brookings and the Carnegie Endowment have been working to move into India and set up shop there. According to the story on the Economic Times they have raised at...
All think tanks want core funding -they need endowment, really. And all funders want to avoid making their grantees dependent on them and them only. In the meantime, think...
As posted earlier in this blog, the Think Tank Initiative’s 2010-2011 annual report has just been released. This report focuses on the work of the 51 think tanks supported by the...
Here is an idea for think tank funders: do not fund them. I've been thinking of this for some time. As more and more funds are being channeled to think tanks in developing (and many least...
A few months ago I had a discussion with a colleague about how to support research and policymaking in a country without having to pick 'winners' -i.e. funding a...
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...
Ezra Klein's article, Giving is personal. Make it political, in the Washington Post on donations to think tanks (rather than service delivery charities?). The argument...
Sally Covington's article about Conservative Philanthropies and Think Tanks is quite illustrative of the close links between think tanks and politics -and the funds that fund both. She...
Rupert Murdoch has sent shockwaves through the publishing community with The Times new pay-wall. Whatever people think about this, Murdoch’s decision is a response to a challenge that...