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		<title>Why Managers Haven&#8217;t Embraced Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross-post from the HBR written by Richard Straub, and is one of a series of perspectives that will be published leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 on the theme of Managing Complexity. Nobody would deny that the world has become more complex during the past decades. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2883&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An experiment too far?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 11:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week a breaking story in the UK focused on how unemployed jobseekers are being forced to complete bogus psychometric tests designed by the government&#8217;s Behavioural Insights Team (commonly known as the &#8220;nudge&#8221; unit). The story raises important issues for ethical experimentation which are very pertinent for aid efforts. The Guardian reported the story as follows: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2852&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Aid Explorer: Mapping the Hyperspace of International Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team behind the Atlas of Economic Complexity (see my post on this here) have come up with a fascinating network-based approach for analysing the global aid system. As they put it: International development is a complex global goal that faces massive coordination barriers. The difference in income between rich and poor has expanded over [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2855&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can we rely on our current understanding of the economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many would argue that standard economic theory enabled us to analyse and understand the economy as it used to be, with long stable periods punctuated only by occasional crises. However, the recent evolution of the global economy should drive us to pursue ways of expanding economic theory such that it encompasses the new structures and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2847&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the ‘Next Big One’?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As concern grows about H7N9 in China, this post explores the importance of managing such pandemic risks through collaboration, innovation and systemic thinking In the month of World Health Day (April 8th), the latest outbreak of bird flu in Asia provided a sobering sense of the challenges the international community still faces. To date, H7N9 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2842&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Development Valentines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Perspectives on a Hyperconnected World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the grand challenges that confront humanity—problems as diverse as climate change, the stability of markets, the availability of energy and resources, poverty and conflict—often seem to entail impenetrable webs of cause and effect.But these problems are not necessarily impenetrable. Powerful new tools have given scientists a better understanding of complexity. Instead of looking [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2823&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by David Hales, a fellow associate of the new complexity think-tank, Synthesis. David specialises in computational social science and here he provides a thought-provoking response to the rise in big data, and some of the more outlandish claims made about it. For a good example of the latter, see Chris [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2803&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is popular in aid at the moment, so much so that there is a steady spate of articles which range from trashing its potential contribution to development through to challenging Western, donor, countries&#8217; assumed roles as the &#8216;providers&#8217; of innovation. In this post I want to argue that there is a middle  ground between [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2742&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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