May 3, 2013
There’s nothing like an impending meeting with the author to make you dig out your scrounged review copy of his book. So I spent my flight to Boston last week reading Limits (sorry the full title is just too clunky). And luckily for the dinner conversation, I loved it. Limits is about why change doesn’t happen, and how it could. It
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December 12, 2012
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How we saved agriculture, fed the world and ended rural poverty: looking back from 2050
December 11, 2012
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Lant Pritchett v the Randomistas on the nature of evidence – is a wonkwar brewing?
November 21, 2012
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Agonizing over Aid
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Fixing Failed States
February 23, 2008
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