The Limits of the ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ Agenda, by Seth Kaplan

There is an assumption in international aid just now that if only we can build a better donor, every sustainable development goal will be achievable and every program transformational.

Modeling Fragility: A Societal and Institutional Approach, by Seth KAPLAN

The OCED is trying to build a model to better analyze fragility. This is admirable, but also risky. Past attempts to model fragility—such as the Fragile States Index (FSI)—have done more harm than good and I wonder whether no model would be better than another model based on misconceptions.The danger of focusing on what’s measurable