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The value and challenge of complexity science
2013-11-04 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A compelling new book suggests a scientific revolution is needed in aid practice. But there are key challenges. Aid has had some success, helping to lift a billion people out of poverty over the past two decades. But establishing how much of a contribution it has made is more complicated. And now the challenge is how to sustain that, and reach the next billion, who are steeped even further in poverty than that first billion. Development researcher Ben Ramalingam maintains that aid will not...
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