📚 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.
Category: Africa
224 posts
Not only the state will bleed
The property ladder here and there
Land grabbing: whatever you do, don't mention the G-word.
How policies end: not with a bang, but a whimper
If I were British, I’d be proud of DFID
Dar es Salaam and the megacity
Dar es Salaam bleg
How to avoid your social obligations: adopt a new religion
The African Man vs the Hollywood Stereotype
In which Malawi's government decides to ignore the constitution
Kenya, exogenous governance shocks edition
Invisible Children, department of not-so-invisible
Bono meet Russell
Never gonna give you up
Malawi's president and the art of diplomacy
The CSAE Blog
Time inconsistency, Malawi edition
Not getting better, Nigeria edition
Bride price decomposition
Famine prediction bleg
Sentences to ponder, Madonna edition
In the midst of a bigger issue, some odd wording
Sad sentences
Africa and poverty traps
When the Levee Breaks
Rape in the Congo
What lies beneath
The boy who cried crisis
New rules for Africa's resource scramble
Considering the counterfactual and the subsidising of subsistence in Malawi
On the opportunity cost of the Malawi fertiliser subsidy
Guest posts on the Malawi fertiliser subsidy
Aid Thoughts is Danger, Achtung!
We must be doing something right
A Reminder
In which Gbagbo joins the 700 club
The Geldof Redemption
Africa, the safest web region?
Return to the poverty safari
Really useless statements
The baby and the bath water
Portraying Lagos
How to sing about Africa
The performance you can save
Geldof, cognitive dissonance and the Paris Declaration
Update on Kapuscinski
Op-ed of Darkness
From the files of the No. 1 Bumbling Aid Agency
Off to Dar es Salaam
The first country to embrace permanent Haitian resettlement
Street Fighting Men?
Transparency and climate change payouts
Will climate change really lead to more civil war?
Book recommendations: Tanzania
More hardcore poverty porn, now with landmines
Markets in everything: ARV edition
Democracy and climate change
Brassieres without borders
Yarrr, the comedy of the commons
Taxing Times
The headless heart
Where in the world is Abu Sharati?
Awards of the day
So fresh and so clean
If it’s good enough for New Zealand...
Not the P-word again
Hardcore Poverty Porn, brought to you by MSF
Elephants in the room
Handset of darkness
Dealing for Darfur
A Culture of Development?
Where it hurts the most
Put the pedal to the metal
The black swans of the bedroom
Intentionally missing the point
The primary aim of our development policies... is to stop people messing with my car.
Bibles and lions, oh my!
It's not the size of the dog in the fight...
More on the poverty safari
Bewitched
