Posts Tagged ‘Aid’

In a world where being an actor, a rock star, or sex video vixen is sufficient qualification for people to sit up and pay attention to your ideas about how to solve world poverty, it comes as no great shock that Wyclef Jean has decided to run for President of Haiti.

Aidwatch: Wyclef Jean for Prez?

Esther Duflo on TED.com:

Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid’s impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it’s possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt — by testing solutions with randomized trials.

Read also The Counter-Revolution of Development Economics: Hayek vs. Duflo (Aid Watch)