Connected cities request and receive 15% more funds from the national government. Yet the welfare loss from this may be only 0.24% of the budget.

Robin Burgess, director of the IGC, talks about the importance of careful data collection and the structure of civil service.*

Stefan Dercon, former Chief Economist at DFID, on the importance of being receptive to new ideas and how to use bits of evidence to inform a decision...

Rachel Glennerster, Chief Economist at DFID, discusses the importance of building relationships to ensure evidence is translated into policy.*

Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE, discusses the importance of a healthy private sector in the recovery of fragile economies.

Eliana La Ferrara outlines four ways to improve state functionality in fragile environments.

With decades of experience working with international donors, Alex Thier lists three key lessons to effect change and build capacity in fragile...

David Atkin, of MIT, discusses what the withdrawal from globalisation will mean for developing countries.

In days of massive protests in Chile, students skipped school to protest only when a critical mass of students they knew also skipped school