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Jan
21
2014
12:00—1:30 PM
January 08, 2014
At the first 2014 MADS, Raymond Guiteras will present a recent paper addressing two inter-related questions: First, does aid potentially worsen development outcomes in the long run by reducing politicians’ accountability and allowing bad leaders to persist in office? Second, do voters attribute the ...
Blog Post
January 07, 2014
My new book The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Good for the West is published today. Here’s a one-sentence summary: a wealthier, healthier, better educated, more democratic, and more peaceful developing world is fantastic news for Europe and America — so the ...
Dec
4
2013
4:00—5:30 PM
November 26, 2013
Technological constraints on the ability to send and receive money securely to remote locations are a common cause of poor implementation of anti-poverty programs. In new work based on one of the largest randomized controlled trials ever conducted, Karthik Muralidharan and colleagues (Paul Niehaus a...
Blog Post
November 11, 2013
The immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, such as that the typhoon which devastated part of the Phillipines on Friday, can bring out the best of the global community. There will come a time to discuss how we can do more to prevent the environmental changes which make such events more likely; bu...
Blog Post
October 21, 2013
Over the last few months, in the context of my new affiliation with CGD, I’ve been making a transition from “Forestry World” — which I inhabited for six years at the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia — to “Development Finance World,” he...
Oct
29
2013
12:30—2:00 PM
October 18, 2013
In the first Understanding India Seminar of the fall season Rukmini Banerji will discuss insights on the challenges of scaling up in development. Banerji will share lessons from her notable experience, as the Programme Director of Pratham, one of India’s most successful education non-profits, and as...