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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 about a radical approach to fighting poverty in desperately poor countries: giving cash to aid recipients and allowing them to spend it as they please. Blattman shares his research and cautious optimism about giving cash and discusses how infusions of cash affect growth, educational outcomes, and political behavior (including violence). The conversation concludes with a discussion of the limits of aid and the some of the moral issues facing aid activists and researchers.

If you read my blog, you have heard it all before. So I actually recommend other episodes instead:

19 Responses

  1. Harare International has a small bookshop in the duty free area with little evidence of acacia tree covers. It does contain a small section on economics. Prof’s Krugman, Stiglitz, Robinson, Nouribidi et al are all represented with also Levit, Williamson and Greenspan. There is little on development but Prof. Collier and the plundered planet was available. Prices were pretty reasonable at $19-$25 for any of the above. The plundered customer will be one who shops in Nairobi International duty free bookshops. There the Bottom Billion costs $45 but in Harare the Plundered Planet costs $19. It is not like for like but Harare is half price compared to Nairobi.

  2. I listen to probably 90% of all EconTalk podcasts (and I’m making my way through the archives as well!), and I’m very rarely disappointed. One of the more educational ways you could spend an hour each week…

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