Tag Archives: microcredit
The almost-final countdown
I take back most of everything I said about the Dakar-is-like-DC crowd. I left my house on Friday morning, lugging my bags across sand roads until I saw a horse-taxi that I hailed down to take me to a random … Continue reading
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22 Catch 22′s
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all. It turns out that Friday is just Tabaski Preparation Day, or something. So I have work off but the big holiday isn’t until tomorrow. Anyway: You’ve heard all these stories before in various forms. And … Continue reading
Filed under host family, internship, Random thoughts
“Mr. Economics” actually talks econ?
Results gleaned from research or data analysis tend to come in three categories. First, and most prevalent, are the useless ones. Then at the opposite end of the spectrum are the types of results that tend to get headlines, the … Continue reading
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Developmentalizationism
I do my best to comport myself in ways that make people think I’m not stupid. A casual visitor of this site, however, might not get that impression. There are continuous references to development throughout the blog; I wrote a whole … Continue reading
Filed under Random thoughts, travel
FIX IT: Some thoughts about development
(NB: all underlined words are links.) I have no intention of making this blog follow a linear path — straight lines always bored me — and so although I’ll get to a more formal introduction of my trip and this … Continue reading
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