📚 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: Worst practices
134 posts
The most trolling, self-aware Nigerian e-mail scam ever
On the ethicical approval of RCTs
Comments are down
On MPIs and MDGs
The African Man vs the Hollywood Stereotype
Invisible Children, department of not-so-invisible
Bono meet Russell
Culling the NGOs
The contest
Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Perils of Survey Design
The external validity double standard
Linda Polman, eat your heart out
The boy who cried crisis
Health spending, suggestive studies and the IMF's guilt-by-association
Perverse incentives in fundraising
Quant wars
The Geldof Redemption
Really useless statements
How to sing about Africa
Gideon Gono, be glad you're not North Korean
Update on Kapuscinski
Kristof on faith-based giving
On the wisdom of giving shoes
Drop Haiti's debt? Why lend in the first place?
Perfectly prescient economics
More hardcore poverty porn, now with landmines
Internal consistency
Markets in everything: ARV edition
Brassieres without borders
Why don't we fund more health systems instead of just interventions?
The headless heart
Where in the world is Abu Sharati?
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
Dealing for Darfur
The black swans of the bedroom
The primary aim of our development policies... is to stop people messing with my car.
Bibles and lions, oh my!
