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Development infrastructure keeps failing not because of poor engineering, but because it's funded as a visible substitute for progress rather than as one thread in[…]

Development donors increasingly demand exhaustive data collection, mistaking volume for rigor and full coverage for credibility. But abandoning statistical sampling in favor of mass data[…]

Development infrastructure projects across the global south routinely succeed on paper and fail in practice--not because the engineering is wrong, but because the operational ecosystems[…]

For cities across the Global South, where wastewater infrastructure is often inadequate, underfunded, or simply absent, this reframing carries significant implications. The argument for investment[…]