Tara Davda

Tara Davda was a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre from 2016 to 2018. She holds a Masters in International and Development Economics from Crawford School of Public Policy, and currently works at Abt Associates.

Ophelia Dahl presenting at MIT Media Lab's Director's Fellows program (Tom Saito/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

2 February 2018

Fortnightly links: Ophelia Dahl, Yemen, and the ‘runaway bag’

by Terence Wood, Sachini Muller and Tara Davda

Slum near Banganga Tank in Malabar Hill, Mumbai (Jeremy Higgs/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

19 January 2018

Fortnightly links: extreme poverty, the SDGs, FieldLab, and more

by Sachini Muller, Tara Davda and Terence Wood

Kri Kri on the shores of Lake Chad, Nigerians fled across the border when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the town of Damassak (European Commission DG ECHO/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

15 December 2017

Fortnightly links: Lake Chad, the private sector, Doing Business, and more

by Sachini Muller, Tara Davda and Terence Wood

Trees felled by Rimbunan Hijau waiting to be loaded onto a ship (Esperanza A Greenpeace/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

11 December 2017

Mind your P’s: Public Private Partnership dilemmas in remote PNG

by Tara Davda and Grant Walton

Side event at COP23 (ILO in Asia and the Pacific/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

1 December 2017

Fortnightly links: tax havens, the localisation debate, maternal deaths, and more

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood and Tara Davda

Netsanet preparing food as per lessons learned from health extension workers (Sekota Wereda, Hamusit Kebele/UNICEF/Ethiopia/Nahom Tesfaye/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

17 November 2017

Fortnightly links: Scott Guggenheim, the One Campaign, Missing Maps, and more

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood and Tara Davda

Screenshot of Etico website on 2 November 2017

6 November 2017

Etico – UNESCO’s online gateway to corruption in education

by Tara Davda and Grant Walton

Red Cross medical center, Haiti Earthquake response (Eric Quintero/IFRC/Flicker CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

3 November 2017

Fortnightly links: women’s empowerment, rebalancing globalisation, and more

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood and Tara Davda

Waiting to register at Ifo refugee camp, Dadaab, Kenya (Internews Europe/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

20 October 2017

Fortnightly links: artificial intelligence, the Cook Islands, Chinese aid and more

by Tara Davda, Sachini Muller and Terence Wood

Boy in Raymah, Yemen (Julien Harneis/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)

6 October 2017

Fortnightly links: slavery, brain drain, Aung San Suu Kyi and more

by Terence Wood, Tara Davda, Sachini Muller and Camilla Burkot

Classroom (image: Grant Walton)

11 August 2017

‘Free’ education policy in PNG: a tale of two provinces

by Grant Walton, Tara Davda and Peter Kanaparo

Savings passbook, India (McKay Savage/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

12 May 2017

Microfinance and India’s demonetisation: uncomfortable bedfellows?

by Tara Davda