I'm an American journalist traveling way outside my comfort zone, living for half a year in Tanzania and trying to cast a fresh pair of eyes on the complexities of development in one of the poorest places in the world.

Theme by nostrich.

8th May 2010

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http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/social_experime.php →

One of the themes I’ve been writing about in this blog the last few months is trying to identify some middle-way wisdom in the debate between the pro-aid and anti-aid sides in the great intellectual debate over global development. Part of the answer, I think, lies in countless non-obvious bits of wisdom about what works and what doesn’t, determined through experience and careful research. Here’s a TED lecture on that very topic from MIT’s Esther Duflo.

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