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kenopp wrote 4 months ago: My promise to write a post on African development is almost becoming like Dr. Dre’s promise to … more →

Tags: Africa, Darfur, China, Economic Development, Khartoum, William Easterly, TN Srinivasan, Development Economics, India

Development Workers and Missionaries - are we so different?1 comment

zarc42 wrote 5 months ago: In my life, I always seem to go through phases of more or less curiousity about the functioning of d … more →

Tags: International Development, Welcome, Ideas!, development, Global, activism, World, low cost, Empowerment

Climate to change to ruin art, in addition to livelihoods

blogstra wrote 10 months ago: Via Blattman comes this consideration of the scarcely considered artistic victims of the climate cri … more →

Tags: Environment, climate change, Fiji, Global Warming

Background to DRC

Niall Keleher wrote 1 year ago: Good audio backgrounder on the DRC. HT: Chris Blattman … more →

Tags: Africa, Dem. Rep. of Congo, DRC

While they're young

Niall Keleher wrote 1 year ago: Very interesting post from Chris Blattman. Allegience to armed forceds seems to be highest among the … more →

Tags: Africa, Development Economics, Child Soldiers

The fallacy of peace and French Fries

josephlogan wrote 1 year ago: Today’s Guardian notes another casualty in the Russian-Georgian conflict: It’s known as … more →

Tags: Current Events, Georgia, Russia, mcdonalds, War

Blattman: The Political Economy of Civil War and Terrorism

josephlogan wrote 1 year ago: Chris Blattman makes me wish I were a student at Yale: This course focuses on a handful of sweeping … more →

Tags: Current Events, Studying organizations, Terrorism, Civil War

When Things Fall Apart in the Heart of Darkness

everydayidealist wrote 1 year ago: It’s ironic that Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe, a book important for its rejection of a st … more →

Tags: Misc, Africa, Unanswered Questions, writing, culture, WaPo, DeWaal, Natsios, Stereotypes

Advice for Traveling to a Developing Country

everydayidealist wrote 1 year ago: Tyler Cowen begins, and then everyone else picks up. The complete list (broken down by author): Lear … more →

Tags: Misc, Travel, Advice, siphoningoffafewthoughts, TylerCowen, Meaningfulness of Little Things

Posts That Got Stuck in My Inbox

everydayidealist wrote 1 year ago: I wrote a while back that I often email interesting articles to myself in the hope that one day I … more →

Tags: Africa, quicklinks, Economics, development, governance, South Africa, aid, Cato, @ vacation

Anthropology in Everything/Ethics in Everything

everydayidealist wrote 1 year ago: Two posts from Chris Blattman that caught my eye last week, and which will serve as a reintroduction … more →

Tags: Africa, Economics, development, Anthro in Everything, South Africa, time, ethics, wb

An-arrgh-Chy!

Christopher wrote 1 year ago: On Chris Blattman’s blog please see the following discussion of pirate economics and legal sys … more →

Tags: INTERNATIONAL, pirates, Economists, Institutions, Cooperative Democrats


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