📚 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: Aid
180 posts
If I were British, I’d be proud of DFID
Bono meet Russell
The CSAE Blog
Is your mobile phone rape free?
Famine prediction bleg
Cash-on-delivery grants in Indonesia
Why aren't we betting on development initiatives?
Kristof influencing Tabarrok
Sentences to ponder, Madonna edition
In the midst of a bigger issue, some odd wording
Africa and poverty traps
Is aid really a moral duty?
Agricultural productivity, food consumption and Oxfam
Ideology and results-based aid
Culling the NGOs
Not getting better: stable vs unstable gains
Linda Polman, eat your heart out
The boy who cried crisis
The MVP debate happens
Negative aid
Fertiliser and the economists' only joke
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
Health spending, suggestive studies and the IMF's guilt-by-association
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Explicit interests
Perverse incentives in fundraising
The Geldof Redemption
The baby and the bath water
Geldof, cognitive dissonance and the Paris Declaration
When the best of aid becomes the worst
Kristof on faith-based giving
On the wisdom of giving shoes
Op-ed of Darkness
Drop Haiti's debt? Why lend in the first place?
I don't normally link things like this, but...
The first country to embrace permanent Haitian resettlement
On Haiti
Having your carbon cake and eating it too
The art of receiving
Transparency and climate change payouts
A quiet debate on aid
J-PAL's Christmas shopping list
AMC, it's easy as 1,2,3.
The missing middle
Is Aid Working? Is this the Right Question?
More hardcore poverty porn, now with landmines
Owning Up to Ownership
Why don't we fund more health systems instead of just interventions?
What do you think should replace the MDGs?
The headless heart
Awards of the day
The dog with two bones
So fresh and so clean
If it’s good enough for New Zealand...
If they have no pencils, let them have wireless access
Hardcore Poverty Porn, brought to you by MSF
It's hard to rely on my good intentions
Elephants in the room
Is C.O.D. aid a new idea?
Let's keep it strictly C.O.D.
Bibles and lions, oh my!
