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Poor Economics: dragging development policy from ideology to evidence
Poor Economics is not your ordinary book on how to help the poor. Rather, it should encourage us to ask the right questions and to look for answers in evidence. Most important, it should force us to review what we know, or presume to know, about the lives of those we seek to help.
Coordinating emerging donor aid – a nonstarter?
As emerging donors have challenged the established foreign aid universe, pressure has grown on them to collaborate with traditional donors. However, such calls are likely to yield few results – new and traditional donors have substantially different objectives. Most important, traditional donors demand coordination but offer nothing in return.
In India, an attempt to outsource the fight against corruption
Anna Hazare may have placed corruption front and center on the public agenda. But the proposed solution will undermine India’s political system, which is working for many, and only shift the problem elsewhere.
Non-profit impact: peers as a proxy for quality
In the non-profit world, the word of peers seems to take precedence over most other indicators, as a proxy for quality of a charity. This can lead to some twisted incentives, and make uncovering and addressing malpractice, rather difficult.
The Discomfort Zone will change
The TDZ is transforming from a personal blog to a collaborative, independent, online magazine.
Leave of Absence
This blog has been silent for quite some time and I owe you (few) readers an explaination. I am currently traveling in Ecuador, till the end of the year, which has prevented me from doing more than make remarkable observations on society here. I should be back with something worth writing about in the new [...]
Al Gore Does Not Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for creating “an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.” And what does this have to do with peace?
Leave of Absence & Agricultural Subsidies
I am always surprised at how many people land on this blog, often from very diverse and intelligent sources, to give me extremely incisive input. Considering their time spent here, I consider it only fair to mention that I will not be updating this blog very regularly for the next two weeks. In that time [...]
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