There has been considerable attention on the paper released by Solomon Hsiang and Nitin Sekar on the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) website that claims that the sale of ivory to China in 2008 is the cause of the increase in illegal killing of elephants and demand for ivory. I looked at this paper with interest […]
A complex statistical methodology becomes more routine….
I recently completed an analysis for TRAFFIC International to describe trends in the illegal ivory trade from 1996 – 2014. These results are being presented this week at the CITES Standing Committee as part of the document on “Elephant conservation, illegal killing and ivory trade” (in particular see Figures 5-9). Clearly, it is the results that are […]
Evaluating the impact and effectiveness of advocacy
The other week I attended a workshop organised jointly by 3ie, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) to look at how to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of advocacy. In this meeting there was a broad definition of the aims of advocacy. The aims included trying to […]
