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A pot of chicken soup and why Brits always carry umbrellas: in defence of indicators

This text has been around for a while online. It is a reply to my friend Chris Whitehouse and his critique of indicators in development work. It has now found a final home in a collection of evaluation texts by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands called "Why did the chicken cross the road?". You can download both Chris' initial article entitled "The Ants and the Cockroach" and my reply here.