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From the Poor Economics website: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty “For more than fifteen years Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked with the poor in dozens of countries spanning five continents, trying to understand the specific problems that come with poverty and to find proven solutions. [...]
Starting Dec. 30, the Satellite Sentinel Project — a joint experiment by the U.N.’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme, Harvard University, the Enough Project and Clooney’s posse of Hollywood funders — will hire private satellites to monitor troop movements starting with the oil-rich region of Abyei. The images will be analyzed and made public at www.satsentinel.org [...]
“Many of the people I’ve studied are not humble, but they are deeply generous people. Fundamentally they know how to share credit. They want to get it done, regardless of who gets the credit. That’s what leadership is all about.“–Harvard professor Linda A. Hill
Here are some of the latest links I posted to Twitter…for those who aren’t active on Twitter. Getting Africa’s big ideas out of the lab via @SciDevNet What is an “entrepreneur”? Probably not what you think. h/t to @DaveAlgoso Is There a Failure of Imagination in International Development? via Hauser Center Why Charities Should Have [...]
“The most valuable part of comparative work in another culture is the chance to be shaken by it, and the experience of struggling to understand it.”-Susan Goldberg, Infant Care and Growth in Urban Zambia, 1977
“Your brain is continually looking for bad news. As soon as it finds some, it fixates on it with tunnel vision, fast-tracks it into memory storage, and then reactivates it at the least hint of anything even vaguely similar.”-Rick Hanson On “Keeping Fear Alive”
Here are some of the latest links I posted to Twitter…for those who aren’t active on Twitter. World’s Biggest Tree Planting Project: 60 Million Mangroves (in Senegal) Lehigh Valley businessman Abraham Zegeye to build school in father’s native village in Ethiopia Did you know there are over 9,000 Kenyans on Twitter? Check out some of [...]
“the most important thing about traveling is to leave one’s assumptions at home, and to empty oneself out as much as possible…to try to see the world through the eyes of people very different from oneself.”-Pico Iyer
“For a long time, even when I was going to school, we were taught that the structure of the human brain was basically fixed by the time we got to our early 20s. But it’s become clear in the last few decades that in fact, even the adult human brain is quite malleable. And our [...]
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