From Poverty to PowerRefuge, 2016 version [h/t Laurie Adams]
Tax wonk Alex Cobham recommends this as his one thing to read on tax havens
We have a sexist data crisis. Ruth Levine and Mayra Buvinic on need to improve data on women and girls
May have to start a new roundup of ‘infographics I enjoyed’, like this from Global Justice Now, on double standards in policing benefit fraud v tax evasion
Oh good, another financial diaries research piece, this time on rural families – wish this methodology was used more (and not just on finance) [h/t Gawain Kripke]
How to persuade London tube travellers to stand on the left hand side
of the escalator, not walk up it? Nice study in trying to change social norms.
Water Aid’s ‘State of World’s Water 2016’ is a model of brevity & comms punch. Read & learn.
Researchers & donors struggle to turn research into action. Answer is networks, not prize-winners says IDS’ James Georgalakis
Spent most of the week wracked by man flu, so I was delighted to see that this debilitating condition now has its own dedicated website, as well as this classic video explainer (for women of course; we guys already get it)
The Global Justice Now Infographic was difficult to track down to discover its sources. If you do “Infographics I Liked”, please give links. Their Facebook page has the Infographic not too far down (at the moment), but I don’t know how to link reliably to posts in FB. One of the comments there links to a factcheck by the Mirror, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/tax-evasion-benefit-cheats-graphs-5179901, which might perhaps introduce some of its own biases but at least it cites some sources. Infographics can set themselves up for counterproductive dispute unless they are careful about their sources.
Good point Peter, Alice Evans also sent me a factcheck on the GJN stat from the BBC’s Tim Harford, https://t.co/NxeTLcw3qE. Haven’t yet had a chance to listen, but gather he was unimpressed