Academic papers can be both obscure and intimidating for development practitioners and others whose interests are rooted in practical, everyday issues, especially academic papers written by economists. Trying to stay…
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Excerpt from a forthcoming article in the Harvard Economics Review, the on-line student economics magazine of Harvard College. The beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians and the kidnapping of 250 Assyrian Christians are latest act…
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Microfinance has been one of the most popular approaches to micro-level development over the last twenty years. It has grown in scope from just 13 million borrowers worldwide in 1997 to around…
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(Christianity Today Online, January 8, 2015) A feeling of hopelessness and insecurity in Central America has fueled the exodus of 43,000 unaccompanied Central American children and teenagers to the US…
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(World Bank Impact Blog, January 7, 2015) There is arguably little that makes development economists sharpen their fangs as the use of tear-jerking, heart-warming, credit-card-mobilizing anecdotes by development NGOs to…
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