📚 This is an archive of Aid Thoughts, a development economics blog that was active from 2009 to 2017. Posts and comments are preserved in their original form.

Expert analysis: someone doesn't read our blog edition

We get a lot of these e-mails: I thought this was particularly worth posting:

My name is XXXXXXX for OhMyGov, Inc. I thought you might be interested in this political news game we are launching that donates a day of fresh drinking water to a child in Africa every time you get a correct answer. Try it out for yourself at http://ohmygov.com/pages/realunreal.aspx. I think you'll love the game and hopefully will see fit to share it with your Twitter/website followers.
My response:

Categories: Worst practices