Duncan Green
Oxfam GB
Dr Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies. He is author of From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World(Oxfam International, June 2008). His daily development blog can be found at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at Notre Dame University, a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID), a Policy Analyst on trade and globalization at CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales and Head of Research and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible investment. He is the author of several books on Latin America including Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin AmericaSilent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003, 2nd edition), Faces of Latin America(2006, 3rd edition) and Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean (1998). He can be contacted at dgreen@oxfam.org.uk.
Blogging on: People, Spaces, Deliberation
- Can Aid Donors Really 'Think and Work Politically'? Plus the Dangers of 'Big Man' Thinking, and the Horrors of Political Science-Speak
- Anatomy of a Killer Fact: The World’s 85 Richest People Own as much as the Poorest 3.5 Billion
- Lant Pritchett on Why We Struggle to Think in Systems (and Look for Heroes and Villains Instead)
- How do We Move from Getting Kids into School to actually Educating Them? Provocative New Book by Lant Pritchett
- ‘Working for the Few’: Top New Report on the Links between Politics and Inequality
- Obesity, Diabetes, Cancer: Welcome to a New Generation of 'Development Issues'
- #8 from 2013: Today’s Grimfographic: How Many People Die a Violent Death, Where and How?
- #10 from 2013: Citizens Against Corruption: What Works? Findings from 200 Projects in 53 Countries
- Poor Countries are Losing $1 Trillion a Year to Illicit Capital Flows - 7 Times the Volume of Aid
- Thinking and Working Politically: An Exciting New Aid Initiative
- The Evolving HIV and AIDS Pandemic: Overall Progress; more varied between Countries; Southern Governments Stepping Up to Fill Aid Gaps
- What Kinds of 'Expert Advice' Work in a Complex World? Some Likes and Dislikes
- Africa’s Tax Systems: Progress, but What Is the Next Generation of Reforms?
- The Idealist: A Brilliant, Gripping, Disturbing Portrait of Jeffrey Sachs
- Aid on the Edge of Chaos, A Book You Really Need to Read and Think About
- Complexity 101 – Part 2: Getting to the So Whats
- Complexity 101: Behind the Hype, What Do We Actually Know?
- How Can Complexity and Systems Thinking End Malaria?
- Getting to The 'So Whats': How Can Donors Use Political Economy Analysis to Sort Out Bad Governance?
- What Use is a Theory of Change? 6 Benefits, and Some Things to Avoid.
- Social Inclusion and Concentration of Wealth - What the World Bank Gets Right and What It Misses.
- Governance for Development in Africa: Solving Collective Action Problems: Review of an Important New Book
- Should You Keep Innovating as a Programme Matures? Dilemmas from (another) Ground-Breaking Accountability Programme in Tanzania
- Last Word to Twaweza: Varja Lipovsek and Rakesh Rajani on How to Keep the Ambition and Complexity, Be Less Fuzzy and Get More Traction
- The War for Twaweza's Soul: The Hunger for Clarity and Certainty v the Demands of Complexity
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