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Microfinance Open Book Blog
David Roodman at the Center for Global Development has begun an “open book” about microfinance. He…
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Latest Development Drums online
The latest edition of Development Drums is now online. I fear it may not be of…
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Accelerating aid disbursement in a financial crisis
Interesting idea from Homi Kharas at the Brookings Institution That is why the G20 should consider…
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Seen while running
Our Sunday runs start on Entoto, the mountain to the edge of Addis Ababa. We start…
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Africa policy: should it be more hippocratic and less hypocritical?
Jean Herskovits says that the Obama administration should adopt a hippocratic Africa policy The past decade…
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Aid and institutions
According to Iqbal Quadir in the Wall Street Journal Aid empowers bureaucracies, promotes statism, and weakens…
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And so it starts
Ireland announces aid cuts. Value of UK aid falls. Quadruple whammy for developing countries now beginning…
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DFID Permanent Secretary on social protection
Here is a very interesting article by Minouche Shafik, the Permanent Secretary at the UK Department…
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Obama supports aid transparency (well, sort of)
My colleague Simon nails the link between the Obama team’s idea of openness and what we…
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The Trouble With Aid – Development Drums podcast
In the latest edition of the Development Drums podcast, I talk to Jonathan about his book,…
