Hello, aid watchers.
I am Africa-bound and will go off the Internet for the next 2 weeks (out of choice, not technological constraints). Laura will be running the blog in my absence. When I come back I will tell you about any experiences of interest.
Maybe when I come back I will also wearily comment on the latest aid-and-growth regression paper, the 1 millionth attempt to resolve the relationship in a cross-country growth regression literature that is now largely discredited in academia.
All the best,
Bill
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Agh! Africa is not one place! *Where* are you going in Africa?
Well, technically it is one place, but my point is – we’re always accusing people of lumping African countries together.
Bill is going to an AfDB conference in Addis along with Paul Collier. The other folks will be Afro bankers and bureaucrats so the food and drink should be flowing. Ah, the development critic’s lifestyle is so tough (-:
@Matt
Point certainly taken, but I think this was more of a privacy issue.
Rest assured that relevant geographical details will be divulged in post-trip blog posts!
Could you also write about internet usage in the African areas where you travel through, and what it feels like to not be online for two whole weeks, once you are back?
I just blogged why I share Bill’s skepticism of this latest aid-growth study.
If Bill is going to Addis he might want to cast a glance at the Madagascar negotiations. The coup government of Madagascar is meeting with three former Presidents in an attempt to negotiate the formation of a transitional government. We can discuss until the cows come home the hows and why of dysfunctional aid but a concrete example of just why Madagascar is always so near the very bottom of the list of developing countries will be seen at that conference. A 35 yr old former nightclub party boy, a twice deposed 28 year in office strong man, a multi year opposition leader who was impeached in less than two years after becoming President and the former hope of Madagascar who just couldnt keep his country separate from his business interests
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