Aid Thoughts

Digesting the difficult decisions of development
📚 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: History

48 posts

Dar es Salaam and the megacity

July 31, 2012

Ex-president

July 25, 2012

Why predictions fail

April 10, 2012

The IMF's mission to Judea, 33 A.D.

April 08, 2012

Obscure Causality

October 02, 2011

Reading is Fundamental

June 10, 2011

Catalysis and Consumption

April 06, 2011

I’m thinking of a word. Can anyone guess what it is?

March 19, 2011

A Little More on Transformation

March 11, 2011

Some thoughts on and from `The Crisis Caravan'

February 17, 2011

Inquilab

February 15, 2011

Why do we need the Past?

February 11, 2011

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES ABOUT THE RULES?!

January 26, 2011

We must be doing something right

January 19, 2011

A Reminder

January 17, 2011

Revolution in Africa?

January 15, 2011

The lost pact to end poverty porn

January 09, 2011

Revolution, Oppression, Ornithology and a semi-Charter City

January 04, 2011

Results-based aid

December 09, 2010

On Entrepreneurs, Capitalism and History

November 23, 2010

How you gonna keep them down on the farm?

October 27, 2010

Hopeless?

October 06, 2010

A Human Thing

September 06, 2010

Keeping it in the Family

August 07, 2010

Workers

August 02, 2010

On the Weakness of States

July 27, 2010

More on Romer’s Great Folly

June 14, 2010

What Does Development Look Like?

May 28, 2010

Motivation, Leadership and Ideology

March 16, 2010

Geldof, cognitive dissonance and the Paris Declaration

March 16, 2010

Learning from a Different Angle

March 06, 2010

Update on Kapuscinski

March 02, 2010

Heroes and Villains in the Same Body

February 14, 2010

Development as Anarchism?

January 22, 2010

Street Fighting Men?

January 08, 2010

Hobsbawm on Violence

January 04, 2010

A Short Post about Violence

December 11, 2009

Malaria in Myrtle Beach

December 10, 2009

To Find Certainty upon the Dreaming Air

November 11, 2009

Living Just Enough for the City? Extended Thoughts on the Charter Cities Proposal

October 07, 2009

Apparently, Not Everybody Gets This...

September 23, 2009

We Can Work It Out! We Can Work It Out!

September 15, 2009

A confusion of nations; a violence of states

August 27, 2009

“Game the same. Just got mo’ fierce…”

August 18, 2009

Discovering conflict without Jolie, Willis, or DiCaprio

August 17, 2009

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

July 24, 2009

Happy Birthday

July 18, 2009

It's not the size of the dog in the fight...

July 09, 2009