My Favourite Development Stories — Part 4: Doubling productivity
This is a difficult story to write, because I do not want anyone to come away making sweeping generalizations based on it. I was in a Berber village in rural Morocco, up in the Atlas Mountains. To...
View ArticleWhat effect will the internet have on development?
Tough question – who could have predicted the way the internet would go in the last 15 years? Currently, it’s more reasonable to talk about mobile phones than about the internet in many developing...
View ArticleLetting Go of Ego to Amplify Impact (for Social Good)
This was originally published on the Armchair Advocates blog. You can follow them on Twitter @ArmchrAdvocates. One Nonprofit’s Strategy for Marking the anniversary of the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs...
View ArticleAidGrade site launches!
There’s a new site up with data on aid effectiveness. You can also do your own analyses of the data online using a meta-analysis app! A lot of work went into this – good job, everyone! Continue...
View ArticleWhat makes a research question academically interesting?
Someone asked me this and I realized that I don’t have a good model of it, other than believing that it is not purely based on the question’s importance. Any experts care to opine? N.B.: This question...
View ArticleOn ownership, or the lack thereof
I want it to be clear that pdftribute is not “my” movement. It isn’t really anyone’s movement per se – if it were anyone’s, it probably wouldn’t be a movement! My involvement has been: thinking to put...
View ArticleControversy in development economics
How to know you have hit upon a very controversial subject: two titans of development economics each castigate you for diametrically opposite reasons. Next time, I should let them fight directly! I am...
View ArticleDevelopment economics trading cards
Not quite, but these are awesome! Each card has a cute picture on the front and some key takeaway messages on the back. The idea is to give these kinds of cards out at conferences or events so that...
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