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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s democracy: Complexity theory in action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Brian Levy is a Public Sector Governance Advisor at the World Bank, andused to head up the unit responsible implementing the Bank&#8217;s governance and anti-corruption strategy. In this guest post, cross-posted from here, he explores the relevance of complexity theory insights for South Africa. A fascinating read. The edge of chaos is the balance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2465&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are leaders really for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A continuing theme on this blog has been the issue of leadership. Many reports and studies call for it, reforms are seen as impossible without it, critical challenges will not be met without it, and we are all ready to point out the lack of it (in others, at least). Despite the fact that leadership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2431&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change adaptation, resilience and complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the latest round of UN climate talks  underway in Durban this week, many are rightly concerned about the agreements that will be reached (if any), and whether it will be a case of too little, too late (quite probably). The challenges of achieving global public policy consensus aside, new research is highlighting a range [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2434&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Scientist Briefing: Can ecosystems show how to fix the euro?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eurozone, like the rest of the world economy, is a complex networked system. That gives it properties economists rarely consider but which could help us understand the current crisis. This New Scientist &#8216;Science in Society&#8217; Briefing examines the issues. What is a complex network? Complex networks have many interconnected components which influence each other&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2417&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does The Atlas of Economic Complexity Mean for Development?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/11/03/the-atlas-of-economic-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard and Cesar Hidalgo of MIT (whose work I have blogged about previously here) have just published the deeply impressive Atlas of Economic Complexity. It is built around an innovative, network-based methodology for understanding economies and their potential for  growth. It represents perhaps the most systematic and in-depth application of the ideas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2388&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USAID&#8217;s Complexity Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw a remarkable meeting in Washington, bringing together USAID staff with scientists and practitioners working on complex systems. This post reflects on the event and outlines some of the emerging lessons. Background There have been a number of meetings on the topic of complexity and development in different locations around the world in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2345&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Complexity of Scaling Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite increased prominence and funding of global health initiatives, attempts to scale up health services in developing countries are failing, with serious implications for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. A new paper argues that a key first step is to get a more realistic understanding of health systems, using the lens of complex adaptive systems. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Results 2.0: Towards a portfolio-based approach</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/06/30/results-2-0-towards-a-portfolio-based-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international development sector has been in a tug of war around the &#8216;results agenda&#8217; for the past few months. This post explores the tensions and suggests a way to bring the sides together by focusing on the relevance and appropriateness of different approaches.* I: The Results Tug of War Development results is one of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2240&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humpty-Dumpty Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of American Scientist features some superb reflections by Robert L Dorit on the limitations of reductionist thinking in the biological sciences. They have clear parallels for social sciences and, by extension, for social policy. Selected extracts are below. Despite Descartes’ contention that we could not distinguish a well-made automaton of an ape from an actual ape [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2255&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success, failure and what lies between</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Tim Harford, also known as the Undercover Economist, gave a fantastic talk at ODI on the topic of &#8216;Development as Trial and Error&#8217;. Drawing on his latest book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, Tim provided the audience with a compelling account of the need for a different way of thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2243&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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