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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>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/12/01/climate-change-adaptation-efforts-must-embrace-complexity-to-build-long-term-resilience/</link>
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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>Global Resilience Requires Novelty &#8211; A Speech by Buzz Holling</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/25/global-resilience-requires-novelty-a-speech-by-buzz-holling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the areas where complexity thinking has entered the mainstream of development policy and practice is in resilience thinking. Much of this work owes a debt to C.S. &#8216;Buzz&#8217; Holling, whose work on resilience of ecologies in the 1970s provided the intellectual underpinning to much recent work. Holling was recently awarded an honorary doctorate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2360&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The last refuge of the climate sceptics</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/24/the-last-refuge-of-the-climate-sceptics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw scientists at the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project publish their findings that evidence of global warming was irrefutable, and this despite being funded by some of the most noted energy conservatives in the world.  It seems that there is only one refuge left for the climate sceptics:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2373&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/20/complexity-and-growing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Cadsby, MBA, CFA, is a corporate director, principal of TRC Consulting, former executive vice-president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and author of two books on investing. This was cross-posted from Huffington. If history teaches us anything, it&#8217;s that history teaches us nothing. A decade after the &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; banner debacle, many voters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2367&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USAID&#8217;s Complexity Journey</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/17/usaids-complexity-journey/</link>
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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>Reaching the MDGs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/10/10/reaching-the-mdgs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By political cartoonist Gado Mwampembwa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=2330&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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