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The private sector in international development policy

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

On 27 June 2018, I made a presentation in the session on What role for the private sector in challenging global inequality? at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association, held at the University of Manchester, UK. The session … Continue reading →

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Blog: Research results from the first six months

Posted on May 24, 2018 by

The Unusual Suspect team took part in a one-day meeting on 3 April 2018 at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Hague, where we presented our results. Given that the project started on 1 September 2017, we were effectively … Continue reading →

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Blog: The missing ingredient? Adding knowledge to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on November 8, 2017 by

Sarah Cummings – Knowledge is a catalyst and an indispensable ingredient in all human progress and development. Despite this, as many commentators are discovering, knowledge is missing from Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. But recent developments seem to … Continue reading →

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Blog: Why the private sector?

Posted on October 8, 2017 by

Sarah Cummings – Knowledge brokering is seen an important way of bridging the knowledge gap between practice, policy and research in the field of international development. A considerable amount of research has focused on how academic research is taken up in … Continue reading →

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