📚 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: Economics
126 posts
On MPIs and MDGs
Some more thoughts on land grabs and tricky statistics
Response from Oxfam: Governance, land grabs and tricky statistics
Land grabbing: whatever you do, don't mention the G-word.
Bad things and the GDP fallacy
How policies end: not with a bang, but a whimper
Random thoughts left lying around
Get your assumptions out in the open
Kenya, exogenous governance shocks edition
The CSAE Blog
Quick thought experiment on proven impacts
Not getting better, Nigeria edition
A land registry of their own
Bride price decomposition
Cash-on-delivery grants in Indonesia
The Guardian almost says the P word
In the midst of a bigger issue, some odd wording
Sad sentences
Disconcerting statement of the day
Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Perils of Survey Design
The external validity double standard
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
On Entrepreneurs, Capitalism and History
Randomized trials are so 1930s
When the best of aid becomes the worst
Questions on the edge of poverty
Drop Haiti's debt? Why lend in the first place?
Having your carbon cake and eating it too
Perfectly prescient economics
Will climate change really lead to more civil war?
AMC, it's easy as 1,2,3.
Taxing Times
