Roving Bandit
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I write about economics and the news on Sudan. Kweis?
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Chart of the Day: What do Africans think their governments...
Posted on 11/06/2013
Afrobarometer asked over 33,000 Africans between 2010 and 2012 what the most important problem facing their country that government should address is. Here are their answers. With apologies...
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"Aren't you going to recycle that?"
Posted on 10/06/2013
I'm terrible about remembering to recycle. It's partly moving about so much and not keeping up with the different rules in each city. It's partly just laziness. Andrea...
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Social Spending and ethnic diversity
Posted on 30/05/2013
The core of a David Goodhart's "left-wing" argument against immigration is that racial diversity makes it harder to sustain high levels of social spending. I don't...
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On giving up development
Posted on 23/05/2013
Nora Schenkel wrote a post mortem last week of her aborted development career 'I Came to Haiti to Do Good….' I'm sorry we lost you Nora, and I hope that you change...
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"Poverty Barons"
Posted on 22/05/2013
From the independent review of DFID's use of consultants: ICAI reviewed the DFID Central Procurement Group and a range of programmes with a combined contract value of £264...
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Seeing like a State vs Seeing like a Donor
Posted on 21/05/2013
In which Justin Sandefur takes Chris Blattman and Bill Gates to school.... he argues that African governments don't need GDP data or internationally comparable micro survey data, they...
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Are private school fees in India "inflated"?
Posted on 16/05/2013
Adventures in fact-checking exfam lefties Swati Narayan on Duncan Green’s blog celebrates a new law passed in India reserving 25% of private school places for underprivileged kids. As...
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PFM in Myanmar: do you have to choose between coordination...
Posted on 16/05/2013
This is a guest post from Ben French (a policy adviser formerly based in Juba) Following two short recent visits to Myanmar where I was looking at the Public Financial Management (PFM) and...
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On Immigration
Posted on 08/05/2013
I need to get some of this stuff out of my head to make some space in there for my actual day job. Since the clusterfuck David Goodhart book-copy-and-pastes op-eds started coming out a few...
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So what exactly just happened to the economy of South Sudan?
Posted on 08/05/2013
Some analysis from the Sudd Institute: (via John Ashworth) Barely three months after the oil shutdown, the whole nation started to feel the resultant pinch of economic hardships. Salaries...
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