Another post from @transitionland:
Bill Easterly’s cheap, ignorant Afghanistan snark…
About Aid Watch
The Aid Watch blog is a project of New York University's Development Research Institute (DRI). This blog is principally written by William Easterly, author of "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics" and "The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good," and Professor of Economics at NYU. It is co-written by Laura Freschi and by occasional guest bloggers. Our work is based on the idea that more aid will reach the poor the more people are watching aid.
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken
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Bill Easterly tweets
- US diplomat Vicki Huddleston tells Ethiopians they have to "move on" from all those govt killings http://t.co/Hc2xsrRe about 5 hours ago from web
- OK Facebook billionaires, here's how to give your money to Development Causes http://t.co/ApK42ziR about 9 hours ago from web
Aid Watch tweets
- Don’t worry, if there’s genocide you can always hire a PR expert to redesign your image via @scarlettlion http://t.co/MTrbSeHE 06:28:52 PM February 02, 2012 from TweetDeck
- Just like Western donors, African donors don’t live up to their aid pledges @csmonitor http://t.co/citwhD5P 05:59:00 PM February 02, 2012 from TweetDeck
- MT @viewfromthecave What org has the best aid blog? Vote in the 2011 Aid Blogger's Best Awards #ABBAs11 http://t.co/pWYtOuZT 05:30:50 PM February 02, 2012 from TweetDeck
- Is social enterprise the key to development in Africa, another bubble about to burst, or neither? @good http://t.co/7Uctw1Q0 04:46:00 PM February 02, 2012 from TweetDeck
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If you two can’t learn to play nice I’m giving you both detention.
Or at least revoking your monkey bars privileges for the rest of the day.
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