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Esther Duflo is the new Sartre?
Esther Duflo runs the Poverty Action Lab at MIT. They do great analysis of what works…
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Bill Sonnenschein – in memoriam
Bill Sonnenschein, educator, civil rights activist, roadie, and friend, died on 29 December 2008. Bill had…
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Donors not giving promised aid; financial crisis will make things worse
Our evidence to the House of Commons International Development Committee shows that donors are not on…
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Ethiopia’s new civil society law
International reaction to the new Ethiopian Civil Society Law is hysterical. It isn’t a great law,…
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Should you do a PhD in randomized evaluation?
Chris Blattman asks us to comment on his advice to aspiring graduate student who want to…
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Will the net generation suffer in the recession?
The Economist has a stupid article, Managing the Facebookers which claims that the net generation will…
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Internet disruption continues in Ethiopia
Spare a thought for those of us trying to use the internet in Ethiopia. It isn’t…
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Whitehall does not get the internet
Jeremy Gould, one of the few civil servants who “gets” the internet, is leaving to spend…
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Who should profit from charity?
Nicholas Kristof mused on Christmas Day in the New York Times on whether NGOs should pay…
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A good question
Willem Buiter on the Christmas message from the Pope What is it about the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious…
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