Is development a (Waltian) “bad idea”?
If you haven’t seen it yet, Stephen Walt’s piece, “Where Do Bad Ideas Come From?”, in the new issue of Foreign Policy demands a…
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A poetic pause for “The Brown Man’s Burden”
TexasinAfrica recently pointed me to a poem I hadn’t seen before, and I basically think it should be required reading for anyone in aid,…
Read MoreAn almost-meeting of the minds
Two weeks after I get back from Rwanda, who shows up but Paul Kagame? He is, of course, the president of Rwanda, and he’d…
Read MoreDecoding the news
Here’s an article from Agence France Press, which is like the A.P. or Reuters–those big news organizations that cover the world in “traditional journalism…
Read MoreYou know you’ve hit the next peg of development when…
There’s a rush hour. That’s right, Kigali has a full-fledged rush hour. It took ten minutes to get from the hilltop to the traffic…
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