Many people have been tweeting about this blog (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/16/buzzwords-crazes-broken-aid-system-poverty?CMP=twt_gu …, on whether we should shift our attention from aid project evaluations to structural causes of underdevelopment. I'm curious to know, have these discussions changed your views & priorities?
I don't think the issue is so much about project evaluations or (And!) structural causes, but that they lay into a strawman of evidence based approaches on the first, but don't offer evidence for their treatment of the bundle of issues on the second. Danger of buzzwords for both!
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Well, it is a short newspaper article, so full references are a tall ask. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, we can interpret it as raising bigger questions, namely about (1) what kind of evidence we use; and (2) the questions we ask. My poll concerned the second.
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Of course not full refs. But they dont make any case eg that public ed. = only soln. '*we*need to introduce & enforce real labour legislation' (what does that mean?!) No sign they've looked at scale of MNC tax, and they suggest misinvoicing is behaviour of large biz.... So....
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