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Mistakes behavioral economists make…

While behavioral economics continues to open old questions in development to new scrutiny, I am still having a lot of problems with the very unreflexive approach BE takes toward its own work (see...

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Doing Food Security Differently – Theme 4: The future is already being fed

While many paint the combined impact of climate change and global markets as something new, unpredictable, and unmanageable, they fail to grasp that most situations we are projected to see in the next...

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On the difference between innovation and technology in development

I am in Tromsø, Norway for a workshop on gender and adaptation. The conversation has been very interesting, with a lot of different people bringing different ideas/concerns to the table.  As you might...

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Why big panel/baseline surveys often set us back, and why it doesn’t have to...

I’ve just spent nearly three weeks in Senegal, working on the design, monitoring, and evaluation of a CCAFS/ANACIM climate services project in the Kaffrine Region. It was a fantastic time – I spent a...

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Should ethnographies have an expiration date?

Ok, so that title was meant to goad my fellow anthropologists, but before everyone freaks out, let me explain what I mean. The best anthropology, to quote Marshall Sahlins, “consists of making the...

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On accountability under uncertainty

I’m a big fan of accountability when it comes to aid and development. We should be asking if our interventions have impact, and identifying interventions that are effective means of addressing...

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Global Policy: The Future is Already Being Fed

Andy Sumner was kind enough to invite me to provide a blog entry/chapter for his forthcoming e-book The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Aid. I decided to use the platform as...

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The disappearing politics and ethics of behavior change

While development – thought broadly as social/economic/political change that somehow brings about a change in peoples’ quality of life – generally entails changes in behavior, conversations about...

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Five years later, and I am proud of Delivering Development again

Five and half years ago, at the end of the spring semester of 2009, I sat down and over the course of 30 days drafted my book Delivering Development. The book was, for me, many things: an effort to...

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A Sort of Homecoming

  So, I have news. In August, I will become a Full Professor and Director of the Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment at Clark University. It is an honor to be asked...

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Development, Donors, and (the lack of) SDG politics

Last week, I published a short editorial in Scientific American’s SA Forum online that decried the near-total lack of organization or prioritization in the Sustainable Development Goals/Global...

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