How do we build a "bridge between the big ideas, the rigorous analysis, & the thoughtful consensus-building needed to deliver change"?📝 In her first blog post as Center for Global Development President, Rachel Glennerster shares lessons on delivering policy reform: bit.ly/3Xsypdy

New by Noam Angrist and myself on the large gap between stated policy & actual policy implementation, in education in Nature Human Behaviour related WP version shorturl.at/Ri4lE Time to study why so many policies get announced but never implemented. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Development is not all about money, but when you're using money reasonably well and it gets withdrawn or reduced suddenly, there are human consequences. Jeremy Hunt took a policy decision to mitigate those consequences. Will Rachel Reeves?

If you haven't already, I recommend listening. This, from Stefan, was very good and underrated. Part of the challenge for the UK to do better is a deep cultural one on the foreign policy side: can we decentralize foreign policy more (not totally; more)? It runs against FCO DNA.

And the links are up! This week featuring Dietrich Vollrath in Asterisk, Rachel Glennerster on policy reform, Noam Angrist and Stefan Dercon on the implementation gap and some great Sesame Street videos. cgdev.org/blog/economics…

I am biased, given that I teach on this course, but the MPP is a fantastic mix of technical and applied preparation for governing (or holding a government to account). From thinking through what the right things to do are to getting them done.

Govt “should return to the system that prevailed for 50 years up to 2010, where the bulk of the aid budget is managed by a single department, rather than being sprayed across Whitehall.” ⁦Mark Lowcock⁩ + ⁦Ranil Dissanayake⁩ raise alarm on ODA theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

First Preference Counting Ended with AKD 42.31%, SP 32.76%; a difference of 1,271,880 votes between them. Either one can win the election depending on how all those who voted for other as their first preference marked their preference between these two. RW got 2,299,767 of first

Spectacular, horrific graph.

Getting a competent and efficient asylum system is essential, rather than the chaos of the past five years Mark Lowcock Ranil Dissanayake theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

What better way to celebrate #InternationalDayOfSignLanguages than by exploring our BSL symbols resource! Designed with input from BSL users, children & practitioners, it helps young BSL users understand their rights under the UNCRC. Share wide! Resource: bit.ly/3XTWITh

The current state of British aid spending is utterly scandalous. A decimation of bilateral aid for the poorest countries in the world replaced by spending in the UK with "a dangerous lack of oversight" amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

One side effect of my son watching old British tv shows from the 1970s: he just refused to tell me about his day, announcing “I’m on strike now.” 😂😂😂

In The Guardian, Mark Lowcock comments on his concerns around how UK aid is being spent and the challenges for the Labour government ahead of his forthcoming book with Ranil Dissanayake.⬇ #UKaid bit.ly/3XUIe5E