Comment on “Counting Chickens”
In 2012, the top-flight Economic Journal published an article by my former CGD colleagues about the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in receiving countries. It is called Counting Chickens When...
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Rejoinder to Pitt
The April issue of the Journal of Development Studies includes the final version of my article with Jonathan Morduch replicating the study of the impact of microcredit in Bangladesh by Mark Pitt and...
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In March I recounted how former colleagues Michael Clemens, Steven Radelet, and Rikhil Bhavnani wrote an excellent paper in 2004 on the impact of foreign aid on economic growth, “Counting Chickens When...
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Disappointment about the war on worms in the American South 100 years ago
On GiveWell.org, I just blogged a new study revisiting the evidence on whether the campaign in the 1910s to rid the South of hookworm brought major benefits. A great 2007 paper by Hoyt Bleakley...
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