Friday, November 25, 2011

surprise, surprise.........

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professor doctor was re-elected  in The Gambia!!

Political fiction: CIA interventionism and development

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In  occasion  of the upcoming elections in DRC , I am wondering how would this country be if  Patrice Lumumba had not been assesinated 50 y...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The earnest search for a mirage

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Finally!! my maestro of development , Jean-Louis Arcand , has a blog !! I had to struggle to understand the meaning of the intricate title...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

German aid transparency

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While Germany is one of the few countries in the world, and of course in Europe, that have not cut much development aid funds, I have been ...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Father, Italy has sinned!

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It is not just Silvio the sinner, now Italy as a nation is considered to be condemned by the original sin . I am not sure that Ugo ever ...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

APOLOGÍA AL CHORREO

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Hockey and development???

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From  a new paper by Alberto Chong and Pascal Restrepo : We provide evidence of the Peltzman effect by tracking the professional path of ea...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

more on Sachs versus The World

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or I should say Sachs versus Randomistas? here and here
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Is Jeffrey Sachs in a highway to hell?

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Here again is Jeffrey Sachs trying to make a public defense of the evaluation of the  Millennium Villages Project (MVP). He claims that ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The essence of treatment heterogeneity

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If the effect of a treatment is heterogeneous and the decision to take-up is based on individual characteristics unobservable to the econome...