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Photos from running in Hyde Park and along the Regents Canal in London, January 2013
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The first Liberia Marathon is on 28 August 2011.
Continue readingLots of people decide to start running at this time of year, usually to lose weight, look after their health or control stress. This year perhaps some people will have been inspired to become more sporty by the Queen’s… Continue reading
Thirty four thousand runners gathered today in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, for Africa’s biggest road race, the Great Ethiopian Run.
Koreni Jelila and Tilahun Regassa won the women’s and men’s races respectively, both with new course records.… Continue reading
G and I had the privilege of joining great athletes and olympians including Haile Gebreselassie, Paula Radcliffe, Richard Nerurkar, Millon Wolde, Hugh Jones, and sponsors of tomorrow’s Great Ethiopian Run, for dinner at Castellis… Continue reading
About six years ago I threw together a website, www.runningforfitness.org, to make running-related calculations (for example: if I can run a 10km in one hour, how long might it take me to run a half marathon?).
Today I’ve changed… Continue reading
Here in Ethiopia it is common for little children to shout ferenj when they see a white face. I am told that this comes from the Amharic word for a French person, ፈረንሳዊ (pronounced färänsawi), because French people were… Continue reading
Our Sunday runs start on Entoto, the mountain to the edge of Addis Ababa. We start and finish at an altitude of about 3,000m. Here are some things we’ve seen on our runs in the last two… Continue reading
Tom (second from the left) visiting from the UK ran for the first time at altitude (his usual run is along the waterfront in Ayr).
More photos here.
Here’s the elevation graph:
We ran ten miles this morning at the top of Entoto with a great group of runners. The Entoto national park is a beautiful place to run, with views across Addis Ababa.
As the elevation chart below shows (… Continue reading
Yesterday was New Year’s Day here in Ethiopia – it was the first day of 2001 on the Ethiopian Calendar. Grethe and I celebrated by going for a run in the hills overlooking the city.
At the Asia Regional Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Manila.
Shocking fact – Afghanistan received 1,657 donor missions last year. That’s more than 4 a day, 365 days a year. How is a government supposed to govern properly if it… Continue reading
The annual World Bank report, Doing Business, reports an improvement in the business environment in two thirds of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania and Ghana are in the top-ten improving countries this year. Other countries that have simplified regulations… Continue reading
The Register reports Gordon Brown's interest in extending the ID cards scheme.
In the ID world according to Gordon, on the other hand, ID management will proceed down pretty much the path laid out by the architects of the ID… Continue reading
I wrote about the US-UK extradition treaty on seven months ago.
Now that it is in the news again, I want to to be very clear about the problem with this treaty. The problem is not that the… Continue reading
A joint project linking the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for Global Development presented recommendations for transforming U.S. foreign assistance this morning. The recommendation is for a new government department for global… Continue reading
Clare Short in The New Statesman writes in praise of the World Bank:
One of the great problems in the field of development is that there are too many players. Each developed country has its own programmes in the poorest… Continue reading
According to this BBC report, the Government is to back down over the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, which would have given ministers the power to alter legislation without the approval of Parliament.
If so this is perhaps… Continue reading
Before setting off for New York this morning, we tried a new workout at thetrack. The session is recommended by the legendary British coach Frank Horwill in his book “Obsession for Running”. Frank was the founder of the… Continue reading
Owen Barder is the Europe Director at the Center for Global Development. He writes here about development, economics, politics, computers, running, and anything else that interests him. He also hosts Development Drums.
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Hello Owen, Stumbled on your website by accident…I’m currently trying to arange a visa for someone I work...May 16, 2013
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Interesting ideas, I wrote some thoughts on them here,April 24, 2013
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Barack Obama (2/2013): “So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in...April 19, 2013
Owen: Where are we going with this? Is this a refutation of the power law of wealth distribution?April 10, 2013
Hey Abita check out my website as I may need a guide like you to help me run bike tours there, we just did...April 5, 2013
Hey Jeff enjoy the riding there–I have run several bike tours there out of Toronto and I love riding...April 5, 2013
Hi guys I totally disagree with your assessment of the children. I have ridden from Adiss to Lalibela 5...April 5, 2013
Hi Owen The long format works well for me because (like Robb) I enjoy getting into the substance and...April 1, 2013