Accelerating “What Works”
There is an urgent need to expand the infrastructure for results-based policymaking at all levels of the US government.
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After the One Child Policy
A pilot project in China aims to give the country’s family-planning agency a new mission: supporting early child development.
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Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
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Not Everything Has a Price
When we pay people to do things that they know they should be doing as good citizens, they tend to devalue the moral basis for acting that way.
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Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
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Designers’ Evolving Roles in Government
How can the public sector create a culture that's friendly to human-centered design?
Broadening the Evidence Base Without “Defining Evidence Down”
The social sector must focus on building a rigorous knowledge base that is broad enough to lead to large-scale, breakthrough efforts.
Defining Evidence Down
With evidence-based policy, we need to acknowledge that some evidence is more valid than others. Pretending all evidence is equal will only preserve the status quo.
Funding Revolutions in Pay-for-Success
A public revolving fund could enable the benefits of pay-for-success while overcoming traditional concerns of privatization and scaling.
Supporting a Truly Participant-Centered Approach to Development
Resistance to unconditional cash transfers may be less about their effectiveness and applicability as a participant-focused programmatic strategy, and more about the development community’s vested interest in maintaining the status quo.