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Aid Watch blog ends; New work on development begins 19 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
Today, after two years and four months, we end the experiment that was the Aid Watch blog. We think the experiment was a success. We’ve had a great time blogging here. Thank you all for reading and w...
From Hell to Prosperity 18 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
A graphic showing striking disparities income among religions in America, from the NYT Magazine: Bill switched from childhood Methodist to adult Episcopalian in an attempt to boost income. Did that l...
Poverty: Is there an app for that? 18 May 2011 | 09:57 am
by Tate Watkins. Tate is a research associate at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. Last week the World Bank issued a announced an upcoming event called Random Hacks of Kindness. Tech develop...
Who should be the next IMF chief? 17 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
Even if the serious charges against IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn are proven false, the IMF will likely be in need of a new leader. With DSK handcuffed in the back, who will take the IMF driver'...
Development Social Science in medical journals: diagnosis is caveat emptor 16 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
Aid Watch has complained before about shaky social science analysis or shaky numbers published in medical journals, which were then featured in major news stories. We questioned creative data on still...
Economics professors’ favorite economics professors 15 May 2011 | 11:19 pm
From a newly published article here. Before anyone on this list gets too much of a swollen head, note that everyone after the top 4 got between 5 and 10 votes out of 299 professors surveyed (there wa...
Are Lax US Gun Laws Spilling Violence into Mexico? 13 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
The question: Do more guns cause more violence? The experiment: We exploit a natural experiment induced by the 2004 expiration of the U.S. federal assault weapons ban to examine how the subsequent ...
Best and Worst of Official Aid 2011- new release 11 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
By Claudia Williamson, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Development Research Institute Rhetoric on “aid effectiveness” keeps escalating, is there anything to show for it? The past (almost) two years, Bill and ...
World Bank mustn’t say “democracy,” but “deploy troops” is OK 10 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
UPDATE: Wed, May 11: World Bank media chief David Theis responds (see end of comments section below) I finally read the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report, Conflict, Security, and Development...
Saving Private Hayek 9 May 2011 | 04:01 pm
UPDATE: 3:30pm links to other reviews (all great) of the Fukuyama review at end of this post F.A. Hayek continues to be the most mis-characterized economist of all time. As if Glenn Beck were not do...
