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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If you think that the jing-jing of Christmas bells is being slowly replaced by the ca-ching of the Christmas cash register, you are not hearing strange noises. December 2013 retail…
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(From the Huffington Post, August 7, 2014) I see you, smugly smiling over your morning cup of fair-trade coffee, gratified at the unimaginable impact your thoughtfully chosen beans must be…
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In this blog the Shrewd Samaritan will occasionally wander off topic to examine an issue tangential to economic development and globalization issues. In this case, I’ve been reflecting on our…
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(Written for Christianity Today Online, June 18, 2014. Click for full article.) This summer many of us will head out on short-term mission trips, spending anywhere from a week to a…
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