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Development is complex but needs simple solutions

2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Donors increasingly favour complex interventions, but this approach is misguided, says Christopher Charles. Every year, hundreds of billions of foreign aid dollars are spent on international development and humanitarian assistance. But the return is modest, with relatively little achieved. Sometimes the metrics (or lack thereof) are to blame. But more often it's because those interventions weren't what the target community needed, were too technically complex or costly to maintain, or failed...

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