Does Chicken Little have Ebola?
This is my second post about Ebola, in which I continue to pontificate about things I don’t really know anything about. Yesterday I suggested Ebola is the Kardashian of diseases and we ought to be a...
View Article“Yes you dolt, diseases can expand exponentially and Ebola just may”
That is the general tenor of some (only some) of the Twitter responses to my posts on whether or not the Ebola crisis is overhyped or not, including that from some experts who know more than I do. Some...
View ArticleDid the IMF cause the Ebola crisis? Of course not.
There’s been a lot of news coverage today of a Lancet op-ed that blames IMF austerity for making the Ebola crisis worse. My reaction in The Monkey Cage: Unfortunately, this just doesn’t really make...
View ArticleHow on earth did I find myself the defender of the IMF?
Yet here I go again, in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. I actually spend one of the 13 weeks of my development class talking about the mistakes of the World Bank and IMF in the 1980s and 1990s....
View ArticleThe causes and consequences of the Ebola hysteria
Readers may recall the debate on this blog about whether or not the Ebola hysteria was indeed hysterical and counterproductive, or a necessary and sensible response to an out-of-control crisis....
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Jobs and jail might not keep young men out of crime, but how about therapy?
A shameless repost from The Monkey Cage. Photo from Glenna Gordon. In too many countries, poor and unemployed young men are recruited into riots, election thuggery and rebellions. High-crime...
View ArticleWhat should we learn from the Ebola outbreak?
I’m at a conference where researchers are looking back at the consequences of and lessons from the West Africa Ebola outbreak. Videos should be online later this week, but in the meantime some...
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IPA’s weekly links
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. IPA is among the many organizations endorsing new research transparency and openness guidelines published in Science by 37 authors,...
View Article38% of women in Monrovia report being paid for sex by United Nations...
In 2003, the U.N. banned its peacekeepers from engaging in transactional sex (the exchange of money or anything of value for sex). Despite this ban, our survey of 475 18- to 30-year-old women in...
View ArticleSome amazing research positions in Liberia and Sierra Leone
IPA is looking for Research Coordinator in Sierra Leone to run a big study of how cognitive behavior therapy affects employment. I’m involved as an investigator, and it’s led by Theresa Betancourt at...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. So when we moved to Cincinnati, we got the cheapest apartment we could find. It was the lowest apartment in the building, and we got hit...
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IPA’s Weekly Links
We estimate that access to the Kenyan mobile money system M-PESA increased per capita consumption levels and lifted 194,000 households, or 2% of Kenyan households, out of poverty. That’s from...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. IPA and the International Rescue Committee are teaming up to figure out how to reduce intimate partner violence in Liberia (where 36% of...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Results of a long-awaited and somewhat controversial evaluation of a public-private partnership to manage schools in Liberia were released...
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IPA has an opening for a Country Director for our Sierra Leone and Liberia offices (above photo comes from the former). A lot of interesting projects are happening there and our offices there have...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. I’ve been really enjoying the Vox and IRC collaboration podcast Displaced (Apple). Some highlights for me were Rachel Glennerster (who...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynecologic surgeon, and Nadia Murad, ISIS escapee and activist, on the 2018 Nobel Peace...
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WHO measles surveillance data Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Thanks for being patient while the links were sleeping, expect some summer disruptions of schedule as...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Thanks for being patient with the intermittent links schedule over the summer, I expect to have some catch-up ones included over the next...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action First, a word from Chris (click the linked screenshot below for the whole interesting story): Here’s that link to his CV (including a...
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