Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.
- Happy St. Patrick’s day, how about some qualitative macroeconomic research explaining Irish attitudes towards austerity? (Summary: early on, the Irish public was surprisingly accepting of austerity measures, which may come down to an Irish Catholic moral principle of “you should reap what you sow” but that’s changed recently with a water tax that’s seen as unfair.)
- An AP investigative report concludes a flashy San Fransisco company contracted by the Sierra Leone government and WHO to work on the Ebola response completely bungled it, with errors in testing and confusion in its facilities.
- Some beautiful photos (including the one above) from the FESTIMA festival held in Burkina Faso, celebrating masks from six West African countries.
- A paper (PDF) suggests that urbanization of African populations has driven a quiet revolution in the agricultural supply chain. Senegalese prepackaged ready to cook meals which started out for the Dakar market can now be found in stores in the US and France.
- Via Kim Yi Dionne, drones are being tested for delivering HIV blood test samples in Malawi, where road travel is difficult and a diagnosis takes an average of 11 days. (Meanwhile, USAID funded go-pro equipped vultures in Lima, and London is using Pigeons with tiny sensor backpacks for pollution awareness).
- The creator of one of the most sampled beats in all of hip-hop is a political scientist (10:15 into the video, and more on him here) h/t Jad Abumrad.
- Korea really wants a Nobel Prize for literature and is trying to industrialize literature production the way it has electronics.
For your next paper, consider a trailer (h/t Catherine Rampell).
Also, from the paper, they apparently didn’t get the grant:
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Some beautiful photos (including the one above) from the FESTIMA festival held in Burkina Faso, celebrating masks from six West African countries.
golu dolls
golu dolls
RT @poverty_action: In the @cblatts links, some Irish ethnographic macroeconomics (that old cliche) from @davenuss79 and @SeamusAPower http…
In the @cblatts links: The best econ movie trailer of the year so far- https://t.co/5Cuw1gqMSe
RT @dadakim: Check out @poverty_action’s weekly links, ESPECIALLY the last one. https://t.co/EQe71hKlVN https://t.co/G9rADow9jF
Check out @poverty_action’s weekly links, ESPECIALLY the last one. https://t.co/EQe71hKlVN https://t.co/G9rADow9jF
The latest development news and links: https://t.co/ArPpyGoKgW via @poverty_action on the @cblatts blog
Want to up your paper citations? try a movie trailer https://t.co/9umhee4NqK
RT @poverty_action: Qualitative macroeconomics? In the links https://t.co/9umhee4NqK
Qualitative macroeconomics? In the links https://t.co/9umhee4NqK
RT @poverty_action: In the @cblatts links, some beautiful West African masks https://t.co/9umhee4NqK https://t.co/LjiH3DZfN2
IPA’s weekly links: Happy St. Patrick’s day, how about some qualitative macroeconomic research explaining Iris… https://t.co/JN8rJ2AdcT
In the @cblatts links, some beautiful West African masks https://t.co/9umhee4NqK https://t.co/LjiH3DZfN2
@cblatts usually I blog about my papers when they come out, but a two min self-recorded chat to my laptop is a fun alternative – I *think*.
@cblatts Yes to making a trailer for papers! I’m gonna do a 2 min talking head & upload to YouTube. Free & will get more clicks than a blog.
RT @poverty_action: In the @cblatts links, some Irish ethnographic macroeconomics (that old cliche) from @davenuss79 and @SeamusAPower http…
RT @poverty_action: In the @cblatts links, some Irish ethnographic macroeconomics (that old cliche) from @davenuss79 and @SeamusAPower http…
In the @cblatts links, some Irish ethnographic macroeconomics (that old cliche) from @davenuss79 and @SeamusAPower https://t.co/9umhee4NqK