04/09/2008 Josh Weissburg writes:

Core Challenges of Climate Change: Begging for Innovation
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that we like a healthy dose of solutions to accompany any discussion of global problems. This is particularly true in the area of big, fuzzy problems like climate change that seem to dwarf any individual efforts we might undertake. But a focus on the problems -- when it really does serve to focus our work -- isn't always unproductive.

Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed

Like many public policy debates, the discussion about whether foreign aid works takes place in two worlds. Within the research world, it plays out in the form of papers full of technical language, formulas, and numbers. Outside, the arguments are plainer and the audience broader, but those academic studies remain a touchstone.
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[Contributed by David Roodman of Center for Global Development ]