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How Feedback Loops Can Improve Aid (and Maybe Governance)

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Fuente: center for global development If private markets can produce the iPhone, why can’t aid organizations create and implement development initiatives that are equally innovative and sought after by people around the world? The key difference is feedback loops. Well-functioning private markets excel at providing consumers with a constantly improving stream of high-quality products and services.
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Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

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Fuente: Center for Global Development Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in performance because they are merely isomorphic mimicry—that is, governments and organizations pretend to reform by changing what policies or organizations look like rather than what they actually do. In addition, the flow of development resources and legitimacy without demonstrated improvements in performance undermines the impetus for effective action to build state capability or improve performance.
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The Carlos Slim Foundation's business approach to aid

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The Carlos Slim Foundation has been expanding its reach across Latin America, with new, large-scale partnerships like Mesoamerica, the health initiative with governments across the region, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. In this short interview, Dr. Roberto Tapia, Director General of the Carlos Slim Foundation talks about the kind of relationship the Foundation have with its partners and beneficiaries.

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Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making, new study finds

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Fuente: Health and Science Poverty consumes so much mental energy that people struggling to make ends meet often have little brainpower left for anything else, leaving them more susceptible to bad decisions that can perpetuate their situation, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria

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Fuente: TED We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to its eradication.
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UNDESA DSPD e-Discussion on ''Rethinking and strengthening social development in a contemporary world''

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Fuente: UNDESA DSPD This E-dialogue on "Rethinking and strengthening social development in the contemporary world" is part of the preparatory process for the 54th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD) to be held in February 2016, and organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: a guide for midwives and doctors – 2nd ed.

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Fuente: World Health Organization Since the first edition was published in 2000, Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth has been translated into several languages and today is used widely in training for and the provision of emergency obstetric care. The new edition brings the guidance in the manual into line with WHO’s current recommendations for emergency obstetric and newborn care.
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Roadmap for the Introduction of a New Dengue Vaccine

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Dengue remains the most common vector-transmitted disease in the world despite enormous prevention and control efforts by endemic countries and regions. Today, after decades of research, public health programs contemplate as part of the intervention to control the disease, a safe and effective vaccine against dengue.
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Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success

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WALSENBURG, Colo. — Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control. If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials asked, would those women choose them?..

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