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Guest blog written by Julio Spiegel After taking Leading Economic Growth, I received an email suggesting I take IPP to complement my learnings, and in my reflections, I felt an open-ended feeling when I finished

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A shortage of affordable rental and workers accommodation in Western Australia

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Guest blog written by Rose Riley I was encouraged by my CEO to sign up for the IPP course. He had completed an economic complexity course at Harvard in 2018 and had shared some of

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Implementing good decisions in my life: Applying IPP to the judicial system in Colombia

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Guest blog written by Catalina Mesa Ramirez The best decision at the right time. When we felt that a pandemic had overtaken us, when we observed that despite scientific progress in the creation of the

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Sustainably managing hazardous and municipal solid waste management in Rwanda

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Guest written blog by Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya In 2016 I was privileged to sit in a high-level government meeting where the policies and strategic direction of the government were discussed and decisions taken regarding the

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Guest blog written by Amrita Deonarine, Liana Elliott, Perihan Tawfik, and Urkhan Seyidov 2022, a new year, the IPP Community of Practice (CoP) welcomes a new batch of IPPers, a new group of moderators to

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Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

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Guest blog written by Dana Radojević and Lauren Truong Four months ago, we set off on a journey across the world – though not in the way you might expect.  You see… we weren’t traversing

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Civil unrest and misinformation in South Africa

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Guest blog written by Collin Mashile What were your expectations of IPP Online when you signed up? A few weeks before the closing date, I received an e-mail request from my then Authoriser (Acting-Director General)

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Inclusion of youth in public and private decision-making bodies in France

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Guest blog written by Fadila Leturcq “Le savoir est une arme” (“Knowledge is a weapon” in English) is a recurring punchline in French rap lyrics and one that resonates with me when I take the

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The Importance of Entry Points in Long Term Policy Problems

Published on June 29, 2022

Guest blog written by Jacob Lestock After a little over a year working from home during the pandemic, I quickly realized that returning to ‘normal’ was still far from sight in a professional sense. Virtual

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Implementing to design better: Clean energy transition for islands

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