3 December 2021 Evidence and gap maps (EGMs) have grown in popularity as an important component of evidence architecture for evidence-informed policy and practice in…
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COVID-19 and refugee-owned businesses: What can phone surveys tell us?
Ceren Baysan | 21 September 2021 One of the primary ways that immigrants integrate with a new country is through work. Businesses, and the industrial…
Unpacking complexity in international development
Marcella Vigneri | 5 July 2021 Complexity is an unavoidable trait of society and human behaviour. It has been researched and modelled across disciplines in…
Big data in the time of a pandemic
Zeba Siddiqui and Francis Rathinam | 24 December 2020 With a significant number of active cases globally, the novel coronavirus represents an extreme public health…
Taking disability evidence to the policy makers who need it
Thomas Shakespeare | 7 May 2020 How much is known about disability and development? In particular, how much is known on how best to improve…
Unbalanced Growth in Egypt: Letter from Egypt #1
Driving over one of the many new bridges in Egypt, part of a massive infrastructure investment programme, we saw a woman sweeping the road as…
Parachutes, apples and the overstated limits to generalisability
The Nobel prize-winning economist, Angus Deaton, has criticised the development impact community’s insistence on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) as the only source of credible evidence…