📚 This is an archive of Aid Thoughts, a development economics blog that was active from 2009 to 2017. Posts are preserved in their original form.

August 2009

24 posts

Hardcore Poverty Porn, brought to you by MSF

The week in review

A confusion of nations; a violence of states

Charity for dummies?

Public or Private Questions

Dirty Words in Development: Incentives

It's hard to rely on my good intentions

Elephants in the room

"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages, and even beyond..."

Paws for Poverty

“Game the same. Just got mo’ fierce…”

Otherwise how has your month been?

Handset of darkness

Discovering conflict without Jolie, Willis, or DiCaprio

Dealing for Darfur

Promoting democracy with the subtlety of Michael Bay

A link to the past

Worth watching: Impasse

The life you can save...through gambling

Of mice and men

Is C.O.D. aid a new idea?

A Culture of Development?

Where it hurts the most

Apologies