- The Economist Free Exchange blog covers my poverty traps paper with Aart Kraay and re-analyzes the data to try to argue poverty traps are more common than we claim – Aart provides a nice rejoinder to this analysis.
- Migration as an investment – Tim Ogden and FAI continue their series of Lego stopmotion explanations of research ideas
- From Devex, discussion of results from a survey of development executives across six continents of their views of RCTs (what, no Antarctica?) featuring our own Dave Evans for the defence…
- Saving in poor countries: beyond cows – The Economist covers several evaluations testing whether soft vs hard commitments work best to encourage savings, including EduPay.
- From the IADB blog – one laptop per child doesn’t work in Uruguay either.
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