BSC/Governance/PDIA 101/Staff Picks Why many development initiatives have achievement gaps…and what to do about this Published on October 30, 2014 written by Matt Andrews Yesterday I blogged about Hirschman’s Hiding Hand. As I interpret it, a central part of his idea is that many development projects: focus on solving complex problems, and only once they Read More »
BSC/PDIA 101 Hirschman’s Hiding Hand and Problem Driven Change written by Matt Andrews I referred to Albert Hirschman’s work on the “Principle of the Hiding Hand” in my class today. It Read More » October 29, 2014
BSC/PDIA 101 What’s in a counterfactual? written by Salimah Samji I am amazed by people’s obsession with the counterfactual, and how evidence cannot exist without it. Why are people so Read More » November 12, 2013
BSC/PDIA 101 Hirschman told us that implementation involves a journey written by Matt Andrews I ran across the following quote from Hirschman today. A reminder that implementation is neither easy nor prone Read More » October 17, 2013