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News
August 2011
Aid Effectiveness
JM&Co's paper Why
We Will Never Learn
has been adopted as a Key Text in the Governance & Social Development Resource Centre's
Topic Guide to  Measuring Results.

CAADP Pillar 4 
A JM&Co team has  completed  a mapping of aid to Agricultural R&D in Sub Saharan Africa,
and case studies on the CAADP process and donor support to CAADP Pillar 4 in Benin, Tanzania and Zambia.

DARFUR
At Durham University in June, JM presented the Sir William Luce Memorial Lecture titled How to Govern Darfur?  This looked at social and political institutions from the 18th century to the present day.

LIBERIA
In March, JM led a  4 week training course in Public Financial Management for the Ministries of Finance and Economic Planning.

James Morton & Company

A small consultancy supporting international efforts to promote growth and social development, JM & Co is based on its founder's 30 years experience across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and S. America.  

Livelihoods

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

Taking Poverty Reduction Strategies through to Public Service Action, by combining:

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

Practical solutions underpinned by rigorous analysis, with a focus on:

Aid Management

A systematic, tested approach to:

Darfur

An understanding born of 6 years living in Nyala and Zalingei, a unique body of field material and theoretical research ranging from  semi-arid ecologies through institutional economics to Islamic sociology.                                                                              TOP

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SITE UPDATE
Photography
With thanks to John Anderson, some photo- graphy from Yemen in the 1970s has been posted. 

Publications
A paper for a Tanzanian client on Small Business Taxation: comparing E. European experience with the current situation in Tanzania.
 
The Luce Memorial Lecture How to Govern Darfur? Also shortly to be
published on Durham University's Luce Fund website.

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