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  • Is private microfinance usury, or private enterprise at its best? Read what CGD’s David Roodman has to say.

  • 77 tons of small arms are destined for Zimbabwe from China.

  • Charles Tilly has won the SSRC‘s 2008 Albert O. Hirschman prize. Henry at Crooked Timber points us to his favorite Tilly article.

  • Amitai Etzioni doesn’t get “why thoughtful people, including several renowned public intellectuals, oppose the right of women to choose to wear headscarves.” (Hat tip to the Chronicle blog)

  • An interesting measure of Africa’s Internet connectivity.

  • IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson blogs on why some countries are rich and poor.

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