Tag Archives: multilateral

Planning for collapse: making development interventions too big to fail and vulnerable to systemic risk.

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Sam Gardner

The financial collapse in 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers was enthusiastically prepared by the political and economical decision makers. In the 70s and 80s, in the name of more efficiency and free marked, regulations were more and more … Continue reading →

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Markets in everything: 2021: the secondary market for development products.

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Sam Gardner

Francis Watanabe is project portfolio manager for the government. He acquires development interventions on the secondary market, to add to his portfolio on early child development. Innovators, like the Gates Foundation or Oxfam, or even local governments, start up their … Continue reading →

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Results in HIV/AIDS interventions: Considerations on the need for a vertical approach in an horizontal world, and vice versa

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Sam Gardner

Aids day During Aids-day, the blogs proved that the debate between the believers in a vertical approach and the believers in a geographical approach rages on. I did not write on it before, because it is an issue with ramifications … Continue reading →

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Should Multilateral aid have results?

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Sam Gardner

Multilateral resource allocation: best practice approaches (Article – ODI Project Briefings 51, November 2010) When DFID changes track on development, it is important to notice as DFID is one of the thought leaders among donor agencies. If ODI writes about … Continue reading →

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