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Aid Watch goes Lite for August

By William Easterly | Published August 3, 2009

Since many of you downshift for August and we do also, Aid Watch will be posting shorter, less frequent blog posts this month, perhaps some with more entertainment value than substance.

You can participate by submitting entries in a category we will have this month: Weirdest Aid Stories Ever. Please send them to Laura.Freschi@NYU.edu.

Meanwhile, you still have a chance to participate in our Reader Survey, if you have not already, to give us feedback on how we can make Aid Watch better. The survey closes at 5pm today, Eastern Daylight Time. We will post the results soon.

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4 Comments

  1. Codrin Arsene wrote:

    Professor Easterly,

    Where can people send the articles about the weirdest aid stories? any email address or something similar?

    Posted August 3, 2009 at 9:25 am | Permalink
  2. SS wrote:

    Weirdest?

    I would prefer that we be able to submit meaningful aid stories. Hopefully that can happen in the fall; this is not comedy central after all. Happy vacation.

    SS

    Posted August 3, 2009 at 9:39 am | Permalink
  3. Andrea Bohnstedt wrote:

    I, for one, look forward to the weirdest aid stories.

    I’d also like to find out whether it’s true that Heifer Project once parachuted cows into former Yugoslavia who then had to be shot because they were, unsurprisingly, not expert parachuters and broke their legs. Or is this an urban (aid industry) myth? Can anyone help?

    Posted August 3, 2009 at 10:14 am | Permalink
  4. Saundra wrote:

    Andrea,

    I believe the parachuting cow is an urban myth. I’ve heard someone else say it was USAID, I’ve also heard about cats being dropped by parachute to help with a rat infestation, that too was attributed to USAID.

    Posted August 3, 2009 at 9:52 pm | Permalink