July 2009
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RSS feeds for International Development Journals
Today Chris Albon posted a list top IR journals on his website War and Health. The list can be easily imported into a RSS feed reader. I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me before. Thank you again Chris. I subscribed to his list, and then went about compiling a list of journals that would be of interest to most development academics. My list does not overlap with Chris’ list....
Jul 27th
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Randomized Controlled Trials
Bill Easterly has a good post questioning the utility and ethics behind using randomized controlled testing to evaluate foreign aid interventions. His whole post is worth reading, but I want to elaborate on his second question, “Can you really generalize from one small experiment to conclude that something ‘works’?” When it comes to aid the answer is pretty easy: no. There...
Jul 16th
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“Yet a man who uses an imaginary map, thinking that it is a true one, is likely...”
– E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.
Jul 15th