Michael Clemens highlights a new paper by Wanjala and Muradian, who do a clandestine evaluation of Kenya’s Millennium Villages. The result does not look good for the
Philanthropy Action has been asking hard questions about the cancelling of public debate around the Millennium Village projects and the contested claims and evaluation approach.
Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes, both friends and colleagues, sprang a provocative paper on me while on vacation. The basic argument: the Millennium Villages could
Michael Clemens says yes, in a new CGD blog post: there was no fundamental reason why the selection of treatment villages for the MVP could
These are tough questions that the Millennium Villages Project will leave unanswered. For a huge pilot project with so much money and support behind it,
Short answer: we have no idea. But I’m hoping that northern Uganda might be the first real test case. Millennium Villages are springing up in
Why the U.S. is about to make a big mistake on poverty, and randomista fashionistas.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Detecting soldiers registering as new voters in Cambodia from the gender distribution. Take a few
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s remarkably hard to solve the puzzle of why small and medium enterprises in the
In spite of me. I’ve been interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, EconTalk: Chris Blattman of Columbia University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts
Bill Gates on why he shorted the Millennium Villages but goes long on Jeff Sachs Science on inequality In morocco, microfinance helps people change occupations, not
Bill Easterly reviews The Idealist–a new book on Jeff Sachs and the Millennium Villages New book on reforming foreign aid Police in Turkey now can detain “potential protesters”
Easily my new favorite blog, after Marginal Revolution The best Chinua Achebe memoriam I’ve read in a week of many, many memoria Owen Barder scores an
Quote of the day from @tejucole: “The student who just sent me an email with a smiley face in it will receive an emoticon in lieu of
Guest Blogger: Eric Green is an Associate at the Population Council and a collaborator on the WINGS impact evaluation in Uganda. Julian beat me to posting
In an interesting new working paper, Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes discuss different levels of rigor in the context of evaluating the impact of a
