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Doing research in Bolivia Paraguay and Perú
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Maria Balarin, Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE)....
Maria Balarin
May 12, 20165 min read
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Political Knowledge Regimes: an approach to the Bolivian case
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Fernando Martín Moreno, Political Science graduate by the Complutense University of Madrid and...
Clara Richards
Apr 30, 20155 min read
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Conceptual Framework No. 4: Working Hypothesis
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
Clara Richards
Dec 2, 20142 min read
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What’s the evidence on Evidence Informed Policy Making?
One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...
Clara Richards
Nov 18, 20143 min read
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The challenges facing southern researchers in the Arab world
Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...
Clara Richards
Sep 18, 20141 min read
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Conceptual Framework No. 3: The formal hypothesis
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
Clara Richards
Aug 22, 20142 min read
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Conceptual Framework No.2: Categories
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
Clara Richards
Jul 17, 20143 min read
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Bringing analysis, evidence and new ideas on social development to the UN system: an interview with
In the Palais des Nations, the United Nations office in Geneva, there is room for UNRISD, a research institute focused on social...
Clara Richards
Jul 15, 20146 min read
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Conceptual Framework No.1: The Practical Ideal Type
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
Clara Richards
Jun 18, 20143 min read
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Open letter, a communication strategy to influence policy decision makers
The purpose of this communication tool is to establish channels of communication with decision power instances, both at the state level...
Clara Richards
Jun 5, 20143 min read
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How to link theory and practice for relevant research
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
Clara Richards
May 20, 20142 min read
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Have Evidence, Will… Um, Erm (guest post)
[Editor’s note: This post was written and published by Heather Lanthorn and Suvojit Chattopadhyay. Heather is PhD Candidate in Global...
Clara Richards
Mar 21, 20145 min read
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Evidence Based Policy + Citizen Participation: can they be combined?
[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...
Clara Richards
Feb 27, 20144 min read
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Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword
[Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of blogs by Claudio Jones on partisan think tanks. The first post can be read here, and...
Clara Richards
Feb 18, 20142 min read
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What do partisan think tanks seek?
Is the political role of partisan think tanks -in Latin America’s new democracies and elsewhere- equivalent to the standard concept of...
Clara Richards
Jan 6, 20144 min read
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