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October 2009
S. SUDAN
In August, JM led a review of DFID's Basic Services Fund and its comparative advantage as a recovery funding mechanism in a post-conflict environment.  
 
PAKISTAN
JM is advising the Rural Support Programme Network on assessing the impact of Com- munity Driven Development.  A book on the RSP experience is to be published shortly. 


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Bridging the gap between analysis and day-to-day reality, with an understanding based on: 

Land

From settlement in Darfur to national reform in Guyana, focussing on:  

Public Services

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Political Economy

'.. the success or failure of an aid programme is essentially related to aspects of political economy ..’  That lesson from Darfur in the 1980s has been at the centre of JM’s work ever since.

Economics

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Aid Management

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Darfur

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SITE UPDATE
A new series, Livelihoods in Literature is launched with Georgia's Ruling, A Tale of De Soto's American Land Law. 
 
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