📚 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.

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49 posts

Next week I'll be unemployed (for a week)

Crowdfunding lives

On Hirschman, measurement and RCTs

Come work for me in London or Washington D.C.

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Aid Edition)â„¢

In which I rant about aid on camera for several minutes

Exogenous shocks to the wage rate of furries

Protected by randomness

Branko Milanović and the Spam King of Development

Make love, not development goals

Come work for me (in London)

We wish to become your friends if we may

Rule of Law, Goma edition

Don't damn the man, migrate away from him

Development as freedom from back pain

On science fiction

Followers of the cosmic watering can

Journal of negative results, immigrant edition

Survey time!

Google+ Throwdown

Snark holiday

Extreme Third World Farmer Challenge: the winners

The contest

Reminder: the ATETWFC

n00bs

It’s not about the money

Where did I leave my press pass?

Nothing's Happening

Empathy and the veil of ignorance

Legendary don'ts of field work, part one

The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Power of Ideas

I don't normally link things like this, but...

How a universal advocate would respond to the universal critic

Dad, where do aid acronyms come from?

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Aid Edition)â„¢

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Book recommendations: Tanzania

Food for Thought

Worth listening: The Very Best

Pritchett, Clemens and Kinison (2009)

Lazy summer edition

Linking time

The week in review

A link to the past

Worth watching: Impasse

Apologies

A link to the past

Slow start