Undercover Economist goes public for randomized controlled trials

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

DRI's annual conference, held March 5, 2010 at NYU, featured guest speakers Lant Pritchett (Kennedy School of Government), Isabel Guererro (World Bank), Clare Lockhart (Institute for State Effectiveness), and Andrew Mwenda (The Independent, Uganda). Some of the audio files and slide shows from the conference are available at the DRI website.