I’ve got a hip-high pile of books by my bedside, including several manuscripts written by good friends. But after Paul Collier’s talk at TED, his… Read More »Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
What Microloans Miss: Financial Page: The New Yorker A compact critique of microlending hype by James Surowiecki – while microloans are exciting, they generally benefit… Read More »links for 2008-03-13
When I first lived in Ghana in 1993, my social circle included about a dozen fellow Fulbright scholars, working on a variety of research topics.… Read More »What does it cost to close down a narcostate?
I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours with the lovely Solana Larsen, Global Voices’ managing editor. It’s a bit strange to realize that this… Read More »Roaming with Fellow Globalists
TOYOTA OPEN ROAD BLOG: Living Up to Our Committment I have never regretted buying a Toyota truck. Now Toyota is offering to compensate me for… Read More »links for 2008-03-09
I’d forgotten just how much fun ETech is. Not only are the talks some of the most creative and innovative you can hear in the… Read More »The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech