Tag: Twitter

• June 7, 2018

  “What do you do?” “I’m a development economist”

  There is a small Twitter fad going around recently, it goes something like this: “What do you do?” “I’m an economist.” “Oh, cool! I’ve been thinking about making some investments, any advise?” “I’m not that kind of economist. I’m a development economist who studies poverty alleviation in Africa.” “Ah, okay. I’ve never been to that…
• January 25, 2014

  A Week in Rewind: ‘The Great Aid Debate’

  This week has been kind of a blur for development economics. The publishing of the annual letter on aid and development by the Gates Foundation sparked the dry kindling that is “the great aid debate” (or perhaps better known as Jeff Sachs vs. EVERYBODY else). If you happened to miss all of this (a.k.a. if…