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		<title>JP Morgan and the Price of Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the text of an article in the Washington Post by Dominic Basulto about last week&#8217;s events in the financial markets. Great stuff. When news first broke Thursday that JPMorgan&#8217;s credit derivatives portfolio had sustained a loss of $2 billion, and potentially as much as $5 billion, on trades gone awry, there was an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2597&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2431&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humanitarian Groundhog Day</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/03/24/the-humanitarian-groundhog-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanitarian coordination has been described in a new ODI paper as a &#8216;wicked problem&#8217; which demands new and radical solutions. This post explores the  longstanding incentive issues underlying the lack of effective coordination and suggests possible ways forward. In a paper published last year,  Michael Barnett and I argued that the humanitarian system was stuck in much the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1879&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Paradigm Counts? Guest Post 1 of 2 By Robert Chambers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote a paper called Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism. In it I explored how technological advances and complexity sciences were together helping to reframe a longstanding divide between two opposing paradigms in international development. Because of the relevance of this to current debates on complexity and aid, I welcome this opportunity to share these ideas here. I warmly invite feedback from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1888&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Q&amp;A on Positive Deviance, Innovation and Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positive deviance (PD) is a fascinating approach, a decade and a half old, and the focus of growing interest in health, education and numerous other sectors in domestic public policy. Interestingly, given PD saw first widespread application in an aid programme, it is still less well known than it should be across the international community. This post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1030&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity with a human face</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/02/04/complexity-with-a-human-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece in yesterday&#8217;s New Scientist titled &#8216;Can Complexity Theory Explain Egypt&#8217;s Crisis?&#8217; explores ideas of complexity in the context of the ongoing events in Egypt. It draws on the insights of two noted complexity thinkers &#8211; Yaneer Bar-Yam and Thomas Homer-Dixon. Excerpts are reproduced below with permission: Egyptians are the world&#8217;s biggest wheat importers and consumers, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1817&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Can Crowds Outperform Aid Experts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When does crowdsourcing work best? New research from the Institute for Human Development provides answers which may be of relevance for aid projects and programmes. There has been a lot written, spoken and blogged about the power of crowds in making decisions. In James Surowiecki&#8216;s bestselling Wisdom of Crowds, published in 2004, the central thesis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1593&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and the Wealth of Nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complexity scientists have long argued for the use of concepts such as nonlinearity and interconnectednesss to better understand economic phenomena, including growth, market failures and crashes. Ongoing research at the Harvard Center for International Development is taking this area of work forward in very promising ways. In some ways, as Tim Harford has argued, the notion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1554&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land is not Linear: Towards the Brown Revolution</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/10/22/land-is-not-linear-towards-the-brown-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Buckminster Fuller Prize winner, Operation Hope, has seen the transformation  of 6,500 acres of parched and degraded grasslands in Zimbabwe into healthy pastures despite extended periods of drought. The story behind Operation Hope is an inspiring one with real insights on how complexity science concepts can help transform development practices on the ground. First, the background to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=987&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dolt&#8217;s Guide to Self Organisation</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/09/20/the-dolts-guide-to-self-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s presentation is a lovely piece of work by Jurgen Appelo of Management 3.0 fame.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1153&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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