Linking research and policy or “If a research paper is published and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?” Lawrence Haddad Development Studies Association of UK and Ireland and Institute of Development Studies connecting and promoting the development research community
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Linking research and policyor
“If a research paper is published and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?”
Lawrence HaddadDevelopment Studies Association of UK
and Irelandand
Institute of Development Studies
connecting and promoting the development research community
Outline1. Development studies is a normative
discipline2. No necessary conflict between
“fundamental” and “use orientated” research
3. How to create demand4. How to meet demand5. Getting research into use6. Learn about impact7. It can make a differenceconnecting and promoting the development research community
connecting and promoting the development research community
1. Normative Goals
Beliefs: survey of academics working in the US, 2003
Adapted from Coyle 2007
Ratio of Democrats to Republicans
Anthropology and Sociology 21:1
Political and Legal Philosophers
9:1
Historians 9:1
Political Scientists 6:1
Economists 3:1
connecting and promoting the development research community
Beliefs: survey of 69 economic faculty members-40 top economics departments, US Universities
Fuchs, Krueger and Poterba, 1997
Values=views on: • redistribution
• equity vs. efficiency• social vs. individual
responsibility
connecting and promoting the development research community
connecting and promoting the development research community
2. Fundamental vs. Use?Not use orientated Use orientated
Fundamental relationships explored
Bohr Pasteur
Fundamental relationships not explored
Edison
Source: D. Warsh: 2006 Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
3. Creating Demand
connecting and promoting the development research community
India is an economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling, says economist
‘India can achieve Millennium Development Goals only in 2043'.
The Hindu Business Line September 4, 2010
Commitment Indices
Creating Demand
Creating DemandMentions of Nutrition 2005-2007
• In Speeches– DFID: 0/50 – EC: 0/28
• In Press releases– DFID: 0/197– EC: 0/239
• In policy documents– 0 in G8 2005 and 2006– 0 in European Consensus on Development
Source: Sumner, Lindstrom and Haddad 2007. IDS Sussex
connecting and promoting the development research community
Immersions
connecting and promoting the development research community