Loomnie: Development Should Embrace Ethnography Already…
… and ditch its poorer but apparently much cuter cousin, RCT. At least that is what I see as the takeaway from this article about external validity problems with RCT – which by the way is similar to...
View ArticleLoomnie: “Informal Economy and the World Bank”
A new essay reviewing recent literature and World Bank studies on the informal sector. From the abstract: Many countries have expressed an interest in the size, performance and motivation of the...
View ArticleLoomnie: Barriers to trade between Ghana and Nigeria
Actually, the full title of the note is: “Removing Barriers to Trade between Ghana and Nigeria: Strengthening Regional Integration by Implementing ECOWAS Commitments”: This note assesses the...
View ArticleLoomnie: The evolving oil & gas landscape in West Africa
This paper considers the bi-regional relations between Europe and West Africa in the field of energy. As its point of departure, the paper begins by acknowledging the ferocity with which today’s...
View ArticleLoomnie: A pretty interesting report on central banks in Nigeria, Uganda and...
A report done by the DIE for the GIZ (click the links to resolve the alphabet soup). From the Executive Summary: This report sheds light on some selected cases of recent progress by central banks in...
View ArticleLoomnie: How big ideas are destroying international development
A really good article. It seemed like such a good idea at the time: A merry-go-round hooked up to a water pump. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where children are plentiful but clean water is scarce, the...
View ArticleLoomnie: Chris Rock on race in the US – and a bunch of other stuff
Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black...
View ArticleLoomnie: What is making me happy today (music)
Ed Morris – Ibeyi ‘The River’ from Rattling Stick on Vimeo.
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