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Blog Post
November 20, 2013
A $1 trillion financing partnership to support ending extreme poverty, stopping avoidable child deaths, and meeting other widely supported post-2015 development goals sounds far-fetched. But improbable action is what will be needed if we’re going to come close to making such historically...
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September 18, 2013
It is a lesson that (development) economists need to relearn every generation: stuff is complicated and “best practices” don’t always work. But in a well-meaning attempt to find universal solutions to (seemingly) intractable problems, the development industry does seem to lik...
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August 26, 2013
I admit, I didn’t think things would look so good right now. This summer of post-2015 reports has been as unexpectedly pleasant as comparatively decent August weather in DC. Surprised by the depth and reach of the High Level Panel report on the post-2015 de...