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May 10, 2022
In Stefan Dercon’s new book, Gambling on Development, he distils the lessons from some 30 years of research into global development and a decade as a senior technocrat in the UK’s development architecture. I discuss four implications of the book for how we think and do development (the CGD mission, ...
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May 06, 2022
Local elections are rarely pulse-quickening affairs in the UK; turnout tends to be something akin to county cricket match on a rainy day—that’s two men and a dog, for those who have never partaken of the peculiar pleasures of the English County Championship—but today something a little more exciting...
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April 29, 2022
It’s incredible how much there is to catch up on after just two weeks away. We went away over Easter to the wilds of Northumberland, where my son spent hours tramping around the forest, pointing out birds (ornithology clearly runs in the family) and demonstrating the bravery—or bad judgement, if you...
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April 20, 2022
Recently, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published the annual statistics summarizing how much foreign aid its 30 member states, including Austria, provided in 2021, loudly trumpeting the all time high levels of ODA achieved. It’s a good time to reflect on the uncomfortable tension...
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April 08, 2022
I thought this VoxDev write-up of Julia Fonseca and Adrien Matray’s new paper on the effect of the extension of banking services to under-served areas in Brazil was superb. It’s structured wonderfully: they show the overall impact of the programme, provide evidence on why it works the way it does, a...
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April 07, 2022
While oral antivirals are not a substitute for vaccination, they help prevent severe illness, save lives, and preserve health systems. Vaccination rates continue to lag in low-income countries: only 14 percent of the population in low-income countries has received one dose of the vaccine, compared t...
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April 01, 2022
Given the date, I was incredibly tempted to simply replace every hyperlink in today’s emails with Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up, but had I done so you’d have missed out on gems like this, this and this. There might have been some superb April Fool’s today—I particularly enjoyed Rory St...