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Conflict, Ebola, and other ABCA talks

The videos are up from last week’s Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) on violence and fragility. Among them are Ted Miguel on climate change

The causes and consequences of the Ebola hysteria

Readers may recall the debate on this blog about whether or not the Ebola hysteria was indeed hysterical and counterproductive, or a necessary and sensible response to an out-of-control

Does Chicken Little have Ebola?

This is my second post about Ebola, in which I continue to pontificate about things I don’t really know anything about. Yesterday I suggested Ebola

“Ebola is the Kardashian of diseases”

I tweeted that statement earlier this week, followed by “Do not get distracted. Malaria, TB, HIV is what matters.” First, credit goes to @gbloembergen who comes

AAS inductees

IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action First some good news – congratulations to development economist and dewormer Ted Miguel, social psychologist

IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Thanks for being patient while the links were on hiatus, we’re back! COVID-19 is obviously

IPA’s weekly links

What if a whole subfield of research is just imaginary? And rules for productive disagreement.

IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.  I know it’s ancient history now that Paul Romer didn’t answer the Nobel Committee’s call twice

Lowes & Montero 2018

IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.   This week Ethiopia this week accepted a formal peace deal with Eritrea, but more

IPA’s weekly links

One of the things Chris is up to these days is being the academic lead for the new Peace and Recovery Initiative at IPA, which

IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.   Two Ebola survivors are suing the government of Sierra Leone in international court to

Why We Fight - Book Cover

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