May 8, 2013
This post is written on the hoof, dashing between presentations, so please pardon the rough edges. Yesterday I shared a platform with Marcelo Giugale, the World Bank’s Africa Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (right). We were coming from very different places, some might say different planets, which is always stimulating. I did my standard power and politics spiel,
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The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: a big new book by Matt Andrews
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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Why 'Why Nations Fail' Fails (mostly): review of Acemoglu and Robinson – 2012's big development book
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
December 16, 2008
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Fixing Failed States
February 23, 2008
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