It started with a wave of panic when my manager suggested I write a short research paper as part of my work plan this year. I’ve just about become confident in my ability to interview someone and write a good case study or success story, but the thought of doing the same for research purposes […]
Development & Aid
Dead Aid – is development working in Africa?
I’ve been reading Dead Aid this week. It seems like everyone was reading it eight or so years ago, and now that I’ve got plenty of time I’m trying to catch up on my development reading. Getting through Dead Aid was a definite struggle – most of the book is written as a long rant […]
Aid in Ghana
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, as I painfully trudged through Dead Aid and King Peggy and even Guns Germs and Steel – Ghana is really rather well off. In human development rankings it’s only a couple steps above Bangladesh, and maybe it’s just that I’ve only spent a month on the relatively well-off […]