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Aid, evidence and anecdotes
Tyler Cowen says that the debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid has improved in the…
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Sleepless in Sudan
Read Humanitarian Hijinks by an aid worker in the Darfur region of Sudan: The children are…
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US Aid to Africa has not trebled
I expressed some doubt here about President Bush’s claim that US aid to Africa had trebled.…
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Access to Knowledge Treaty
The A2K initiative is an effort to change the priorities of the World Intellectual Property Organization…
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Cycling this morning
It being Friday, another great cycle ride in the Berkeley Hills, finishing at the Cheeseboard in…
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G8 at Gleneagles: new money?
The White House is clear that it did not agree to any additional aid for Africa…
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Transferring money from rich to poor
A recent entry over at Unrestricted Domain raises an interesting and important point which is often…
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Blogging and the mainstream media
Normally I tried to avoid blogging about blogging – it is all too self referential. But…
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Lake Langano
Meskel Square has an evocative post about Lake Langano in Ethiopia. When we lived in Ethiopia,…
