Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer started an initiative to make government data from all levels very easy
The syllabus is here and the slides are here: Week 3 – States Week 2 – Conflict Week 1 – The demand for order
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Rachel Strohm has a new subscribable newsletter, “Africa Update,” which will have the kinds of
A brilliant article on the emergence of “order” from anarchy: For April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users, who are
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. ICYMI, there’s a famine affecting 20 million people across a number of countries. From the
The syllabus is here and the slides are here: Week 2 – Conflict Week 1 – The demand for order
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Most of what I post here is blatantly ripped off from other people, if you
Not everyone like my idea for fighting world poverty. Bill Gates wants to solve African poverty by helping more poor people raise chickens. So recently
The syllabus is here and the slides are here for those that are interested in following along. Unfortunately I am not quite organized enough to offer
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Greetings from IPA & J-PAL’s global staff training in Kenya. It’s where new staff from
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. IPA and the International Rescue Committee are teaming up to figure out how to reduce
Bill Gates spent a lot of 2016 talking about how chickens can solve world poverty, and how he’d like to help a third of rural sub-Saharan Africans start
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Heard about Universal Basic Income (UBI)? UBI, UBI, UBI, UBI, UBI, UBI. A sad but fascinating
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Two new user-friendly briefs from my colleagues at IPA’s Financial Inclusion Program: A common
New York Times published an article last week, titled “The Future of Not Working.” In it, Annie Lowrie discusses the universal basic income experiments in
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. There have been a few related things over the past couple months that all get
In a minute I’m going to get to a great new book on U.S. poverty and policing. But first I have to digress. You’ll see
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Happy 100th links everybody. Thanks for the wonderful feedback and to Chris for loaning
A fantastic essay by Dani Rodrik, that should be read in full: Last October, British Prime Minister Theresa May shocked many when she disparaged the
Ezra Klein’s interview of tech reporter Kara Swisher A pre-doc in India for students interested in experimental research (scroll down) Not so realistic in America, but
