How NGOs and service delivery organisations can be empowered by better use of data to improve public service delivery.

Some thoughts-in-progress: if you are going to provide a public subsidy to the private sector, is it nearly always better to amplify the returns than to reduce their risks?

In Norway last year I met with the impressive staff of one of the world’s largest and smartest NGOs. They were unhappy that Norwegian aid money was being used to discourage deforestation in Brazil instead of to immunize children and educate girls in low-income Africa—in other words,...

The World Bank President Jim Kim has said that the next frontier for the World Bank is to 'help to advance a science of delivery'.  But the problem is not that we are ignoring politics, as Kevin Watkins suggests: the problem is that we are ignoring complexity.

The agenda for action to tackle illicit financial flows has passed an important threshold. While the G-8 meeting which concluded today did not agree everything that had been hoped, there was tangible progress in two out of the three main areas.