📚 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.

November 2009

21 posts

Tips for field work: don't freak out your sample

J-PAL's Christmas shopping list

Will climate change really lead to more civil war?

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

AMC, it's easy as 1,2,3.

The missing middle

A Very Exciting Post about Grey-Suited Bureaucracy

Book recommendations: Tanzania

Is Aid Working? Is this the Right Question?

More hardcore poverty porn, now with landmines

The dangers of hot issues

Owning Up to Ownership

Internal consistency

Food for Thought

Markets in everything: ARV edition

To Find Certainty upon the Dreaming Air

Let them vote with their feet

“Pay Me Money – Pay Respect; Don’t Insult My Intellect”

Unfashionable philanthropy

Democracy and climate change

Brassieres without borders