The Hackensack

The July/August Atlantic magazine offers this modest collection of brief essays, on ideas that range from reasonable to stupid, "15 Wa...

From an op/ed in Friday's Financial Times by Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda ( "Africa has to find its own road to prosperity...

A couple of years ago, articles with titles such as this one by Rohini Nilekani in Yale Global were fairly common: "Is Water the Next O...

In a post last month ( "An African Economist on Western Aid to Africa" ), we mentioned the Zambian-born economist and author Dambi...

In a recent post ( "The UN High Commissioner of Refugees Imitates The Onion" ), we mentioned the NYU development economist William...

Hat tip to Atlantic blogger/FT Columnist Clive Crook for mentioning that development economist and NYU professor William Easterly has a new...