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Role reversal: subsidizing the private sector
Here’s an odd thing. Many people with free market instincts about development assistance say that they…
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Mr Blair’s adventure in America
All credit to Mr Blair for visiting Washington to try to persuade the US administration to…
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Fallacies about aid and development
Generally, blogs are a pretty good way to hear from people with direct experience and expertise…
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Kaletsky is over-optimistic
Anatole Kaletsky has this article in the May 2005 edition of Prospect which argues that economics…
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The politics of aid and NGOs
I was very struck by this article by the BBC’s Lara Pawson, about the behaviour of…
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Making us safe
An email has flooded in, commenting on my blog, from someone calling himself “Chipper”. He says:…
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