For anyone who was unable to attend last week’s New Techniques in Development Economics Conference, some of the papers are available online. Full program over the fold. Those that are available are hyperlinked; others should show up with a Google Scholar search at some point the future.
My op-ed last Tuesday was on the effectiveness of foreign aid, looking especially at AusAID’s efforts (via its Office of Development Effectiveness) to ensure that the multi-billion dollar increase in foreign aid over the coming years isn’t wasted. Full text below. As seasoned readers will guess, I was itching to use the phrase “they should do more randomised trials”, but managed to hold myself back. Read more »
I’m co-organising a conference today and tomorrow on “New Techniques in Development Economics” (program and location details here), including some of my favourite development economists from outside Australia (including but not limited to Chris Blattman, Leigh Linden, Seema Jayachandran, Dean Karlan, and Steve Stillman). Read more »
…comes from Paul Collier, commenting on a Martin Wolf column about the food crisis in the FT. There’s this: Read more »
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