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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  2. Power and evidence in South East Asia

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 July 2013
    Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines are well on their way to middle-income status: now they need to incorporate a wider range of stakeholders and knowledge in policy decision-making.
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  3. It's a risky business: aid and new approaches to political risk management

    Publication - Discussion papers - 28 June 2013
    Alina Rocha Menocal
    This paper focuses on political risk and argues that if international assistance is to promote political and institutional reform more effectively, it needs to become smarter – more politically aware, better attuned to context, more pragmatic and flexible, and, crucially, less risk averse. Understanding and managing political risk better and more systematically is essential to this.
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  4. Entry points for developing tourism in Nepal: what can be done to address key constraints to inclusive growth?

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 June 2013
    Harry Jones
    In 2012, tourism contributed 9.4% to Nepal's GDP: however, value captured per tourist is declining, and overcrowding is leading to an unsustainable 'low value, high volume' model. This report considers the key drivers and constraints of issues affecting sustainable tourism and suggests entry points for action.
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  10. Parliament in Accra
    Parliament in Accra

    Lawmakers meet during a session of Parliament in Accra
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
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    Politicising or depoliticising aid? The political economy of political economy analysis

    Event - Conference - 15 May 2013

    'Politics matters’: this sentiment has increasingly come to accrue normative dimensions across the international development community in the last decade. Theincorporation of politics into the design and practice of development,however, has not been as smooth as this rhetoric might suggest. Thecommissioning and use of political economy analyses by donoragencies has been widespread for years but has largely failed to gaintraction at the operational level. This panel explored why thisdiffusion of politics and development has been so problematic.

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