Our kids are such great flyers! Here is a pic from our quick flight to join Baba. Avery made Larson laugh with a puppet show, thanks to the air sick bag. (...) Read the original article... More»

Spending the sunny day with the kiddos in the pool was a great Mother’s day. Even as Taylor, due to malaria, was in bed and kind of loopy he arranged for the caretaker of the home we were staying at to make flower arrangements all over the house. Here is a picture of one... More»

We arrived home last night. Taylor, as many have seen from his Facebook posts, came down with malaria. Thanks to a quick call to the fabulous Dr. Ginna and a fast trip to a neighborhood chemist he got on the right meds and is on the mend. He was even well enough to do... More»

The World Bank continues to be one of the leaders in open data and the visualization of that data. I recently came upon the World Bank eAtlas. It takes the data made available and maps the indicators in order to compare countries around the world. In the screen grab above, I searched for the... More»

Andrés Marroquín and Julio H. Cole ran a statistical analysis of the length of words used in Nobel Laureate speeches. Winners for Literature use shorter words than in other disciplines. And as a general rule of thumb I would guess that Nobel prize winners in literature are also better writers. Ergo, use short words... More»

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(First published as a blog post on the Center for Global Development’s Views from the Center.) On Friday the Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will decide who will be the Bank’s next President.  I’ve interviewed four of the candidates and the interviews are now online for you to listen to, and... More»

My last flight up to Rumbek, I was placed on a milk run that had me stopping in Bor and Mabior in Jonglei State, before going to Rumbek. Lakes State.One would assume a state of many lakes?I had noticed on the ground a lack of visible, natural, bodies of water in the state, but... More»

In case our faithful readers are unaware, we have been in the States for 2 weeks now and are having a wonderful time. We spent a week with Eli's parents in Naperville, IL and Eli's sister Alyssa and her 4 boys surprised us by driving almost 4 hours from MI to see us our... More»

Abhijeet has a new post up at the CSAE blog. He makes the critical point that when a study finds no difference between regular teachers and contract teachers in Kenya, those contract teachers are still being paid only a fifth of regular teachers. It's kind of silly to be disappointed by seeing no positive... More»

A lot has been said about evaluation and the impact of the Millennium Villages, most of which boils down to:"What is the impact of the Millennium Village package of interventions on the area in question?"The really depressing part though is that this is actually the least interesting question. Chances are that throwing in a... More»

Andrew Natsios, a former US envoy to Sudan and former administrator of USAID called on Friday for the US to arm South Sudan with anti-aircraft weapons. We need only make sure that, for the North, attacking the South is a little bit harder than shooting fish in a barrel. Maybe providing weaponry inherently built... More»

Submitted by High Plane Drifter COP intrepidly wades in through red tape to save the natives and achieve sustainable development. (Photo: http://john.curtin.edu. (...) Read the original article... More»

RT @jeanewine: @aceramicartist "Always hv a pricin strategy n place & consider all factors of production when setting a price"@TheCreativez # saw on BBC this morning: http://t.co/6TsvOiO0 nifty # wow… internet speed really sucks at the moment… that or Barney took me into a time Read the original article... More»

RT @jeanewine: @aceramicartist "Always hv a pricin strategy n place & consider all factors of production when setting a price"@TheCreativez # saw on BBC this morning: http://t.co/6TsvOiO0 nifty # wow… internet speed really sucks at the moment… that or Barney took me into a time Read the original article... More»