We are excited to collaborate with The Politics of Education Network (POLED) Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge for 2 seminars on Power, Politics & Policy:
7 May Not_that_PeterEvans on the political economy of education, growth & development
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14 May Dr Joe Abah, OON - sadly now full

My timeline is 99% grim. In case you need a 1% diversion here is a picture of wild garlic that my daughter Ramya Evans took yesterday. Imagine the taste, the scent, the pesto, the scones....

This is the content that keeps me here. No development policy dogs of cheese on my linkedin.

😢 just caught up with news that Duncan Green Duncan Green is leaving Oxfam International - thank you for all of the convening & catalysing & provocative thinking.

Digging out some favourite Duncan moments from the golden days of Twitter...

REAL-ly looking forward to this!

Brilliant chance to test ideas for making <political economy> practical, accessible, & explained for mainstream.

Target: big decision makers/spenders in education, growth, development.

? Try a side bet on pol economy to unlock effectiveness?

This is cool. I use to worry that input costs for asset recovery were greater than loot returned, and peanuts vs total losses. That was in early 'projects' whereas now it seems <systems> are realising scales of return that make a difference.

Balance sheet data? Open Ownership

Great new report on overlooked policies to boost development by Stefan Dercon, with input from Not_that_PeterEvans. They call out 'public procurement reform as one area 'neglected by the mainstream', 'despite its omnipresence'. Here is how we are all missing a trick 🧵

We salute the lab mouse

(As the child of a cytogeneticist, three cheers too).

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I was looking for an old synthesiser joke to share with Jeff Mosenkis and found a whole thread...

Cc @traff

Hey Feargal Sharkey- your tireless action on our rivers & seas echoes global efforts to shine a light on what govts & companies do, spend, deliver.

Also moving from data/monitoring to more political, problem solving, systemic effort.

🤓 any chance of a boost for this blog?

Great work / great team!

Michael Gavin Hayman 💙💛 Olúṣeun Onígbindé Ian Gary Mark Robinson jonas moberg Elisa Peter Sanjay Pradhan Gary Forster Open Gov Partnership EITI International Open Contracting Partnership PublishWhatYouFund Publish What You Pay Open Data Charter Open Society Foundations Josh Powell Stephen Davenport A tour de force warren krafchik and Not_that_PeterEvans, thank you! A lot in there...I agree with the need for a more political approach, the need for more 'unlikely networks' & dynamic 'insider-outsider' coalitions as Jonathan Fox calls them. We have to be more hard-nosed going fwds.

Every time a foundation funder or aid donor seeks my advice on useful <<political economy research>> in relation to subject X in country Y, the <Practical Politics Platform> seems one step closer...

(today it was climate finance...).

Blog co-authored with warren krafchik on 20 years of the Open movement, & ideas for what next - hoping to spur conversation we stress need for
1. more politics & political economy
2. an ecosystem approach
3. problem solving focus
Why? Closing civic space means a gear change is needed

#TaylorSwift is a cultural phenomenon that we haven’t seen since the V.

Here are three reasons why.

The third might surprise you.

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