- Dani Rodrik on a Hippocratic Oath for Future Development Policy -- good stuff, though he's wrong on maternal mortality.
- Multivariate statistics = lies? Nope.
- What’s the "growth elasticity of development" across Africa today?
- Five Thirty-Eight has a fascinating article on my home state's politics: "In Arkansas, the Lost Art of Splitting Tickets". One thing I've learned from talking American politics abroad is that Arkansas is not the best place to start explanations.
- The state of development economics, according to experts in various subfields.
- "The Worst Thing That Has Happened to Our Democratic Election System"
- Finally, Wolfram Alpha has a nifty personal analytics tool for Facebook. In addition to creating the graph of my friends below (clustered together by mutual friendships), it tells me the median age of my Facebook friends is 26, amongst other things. Check it out:
