Ivory Coast is a divided society. The outsized egos of its presidential candidates were fed by a real social crisis that divided the country into a
At first, West African states, the African Union, the European Union, and the United Nations spoke with one voice, insisting that Ouattara had won the
800 people were massacred in Duékoué yesterday. I used to work in Duékoué. It would be any other small, rural town, but it has beautiful
I was thinking to myself that awfully few diplomats have been writing about the crisis. But I had missed this IHT piece by John Campbell:
Yesterday I blogged Paul Collier’s proposal that regional powers (and the West?) encourage the Ivoirian Army to remove Gbagbo from power. There were many good
After the supine response of southern Africa’s governments to Mugabe, Gbagbo must be astonished by what has hit him That from Paul Collier’s commentary on Cote
It is a shame that Mike McGovern’s new book on Cote d’Ivoire is not out for a few more weeks. You can pre-order here. Here’s
The Cote d’Ivoire open thread drew in excellent comments. Some highlights: From Joseph Lake and Random African, a rightful pointer to Jeune Afrique (tweeting at @Jeune_Afrique) for
For no good reason I feel optimistic about Cote d’Ivoire. Optimism would be impossible if the French or Americans or main West African states had
What is the lowdown on this? Is it going to be a sham? Stolen? Orderly? Why or why not? I have not seen thoughtful news
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Berk Ozler counts the numbers of men vs. women asking questions during a seminar speaker’s
Tired of mapping local-level income by night lighting? Try cell phone minutes. On the left, levels of use in Cote d’Ivoire and on the right,
Three years ago, randomizing Liberian ex-combatants into a reintegration program sounded like a good idea. The problem wouldn’t be that ex-combatants would angrily resist randomization.
Looked at over the fifty-year span since the publication of W.W. Rostow’s The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, development economics as a field
In the motorcycle taxi market in Sub-Saharan Africa, the relation between the owners and the drivers is characterized by a principal agent problem with the
1. Thabo Mbeki: “What the world got wrong in Cote d’Ivoire” 2. How to write a grant proposal for industry 3. The economic outlook for
Big news. A beautiful, healthy, perfect baby girl strode into our lives Sunday afternoon with what we hope is uncharacteristic drama. At right are Mom,
Texas in Africa has posted notes from a friend in Abidjan. One begins ominously, “I don’t know about if this will be technically a genocide…”
Readers of this blog know that this author is NOT a big fan of external military intervention as an instrument of a ludicrously broadened concept
1. ICG explains how war might be avoided in Cote d’Ivoire 2. A Uganda IPA position of possible interest to budding evaluation researchers 3. Are
