Here's a snapshot of what captured our attention this week:
- Bill Easterly: One of the nicest aid grumps you'd ever want to meet
- Princeton Goes Open Access to Stop Staff from Handing All Copyright to Journals
- Do you read the FAI blog or visit our site? If so, we need you! Please take 2 minutes (really, that's all it takes) to take our website survey. Your input will ensure that we buid a user-friendly website.
- Dave Algoso and the Smart Aid Initiative did their own survey on user habits re: aid and development blogs. Their results are here.
- 10 Things We’ve Learned: #2 – Neither grants nor markets alone will solve the problems of poverty
- Global Dashboard on "What's really happening to inequality?"
- Timothy Ogden on "Revisiting Objections to RCTs" which inspired David Roodman's own contribution on the topic.
- Wikileaks: corruption alleged in Bangaldesh prime minister's office
- Dean Karlan wonders "What Percentage of Microfinance Loans Actually Go to Business Investment?"
- The Hindu newspaper on a new technological innovation: A slate for micro-finance
- Owen Barder contemplates the future of development cooperation and the creation of "posses" to tackle particular problems.
Editor's Note:
If you were hoping that the faiV would be a pleasant distraction from the overwhelming flow of AI-related content, sorry. For the record, the faiV had “ai” built in before Anthropic existed. And a housekeeping note: we’ve finally jumped ship from Mailchimp to NYU’s mailing platform—I guess if you’re reading this it’s been a seamless transition and if you’re not, well, you’re not. Feedback on the faiV’s content and format and delivery methods is always welcome, just drop me an email.
- Tim Ogden