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.