New DFID Research Strategy Launched

DFID will spend around £1 billion over the next five years on development research. The Secretary of State for International Development Rt. Hon Douglas Alexander MP revealed details of the new priorities at the London launch on April 22nd.
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Commenting on the new strategy, IIED Director Camilla Toulmin refelcts on the roles that researchers need to play. She argues that they need to "ask difficult questions, explode some of the myths and assumptions that lie behind a lot of day to day policy and thinking. We need to be critical about the assumptions we make as the assumptions are often wrong."
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