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In Focus: Maria Pia Devoto, Director of the Public Policy Association in Argentina

MPD: We started APP in 2002 after the economic, social, institutional political crisis that we had in Argentina. The idea was to strengthen the State, and also to promote the implementation of effective public policies.Until that time public policies were at a disjuncture with the reality in the country. For example, on one side you had civil society doing their own work, on another there were academics doing research into what would have a real impact in the context of daily life, and then you had politicians. Our aim was to make a network between all of these entities in order to have a public policy with reliable, good data as well as promoting the research within academia into what can have a real impact on the lives of Argentinians.

19.09.2013

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