USAID provides the above inforgraphic to illustrate the importance of saving moms at birth. Happy Mother's day to all the moms out there. Especially mine. Read the original article... More»

here are a few snaps from our sanctuary of celebration in the Seychelles... Read the original article... More»

Like I said in my last post, many women are now beginning to see the use of and use Pheromones. This post will look at the good Pheromones products out there for women. Essence of woman pheromone cologne is the most intense and powerful on the market today. It has copulins which occur in... More»

By Julianna Davies. The term 'business sustainability' has become a popular buzzword in contemporary MBA programs. Today business graduates are exploring the various methods by which corporate entities can become more lucrative and less wasteful. These strategies are especially needed in Africa - a continent whose valuable resources are far outweighed by human poverty... More»

We went through fire and through water; But You brought us out to rich fulfillment. Ps 66:12 This is the verse I read yesterday that jumped out as a summary of where we are now. On May 9th, Scott and I reached the milestone of 25 years of marriage. And in the midst of... More»

 To appreciate the next post I am about to write, just scroll through the random download of the last week's snaps from the phone.  A week of life involves a fair amount of passing through fire and water:  the fire of being handed not-breathing babies or complicated dwindling toddlers, the water of (I'm not... More»

Why are we obsessing with gay rights in the middle of an economic crisis? Because gay rights are human rights. And if you really need a reason beyond that, Daron Acemoglu lays out in detail how the "rights revolution" over the last century has driven technological innovation that has delivered economic growth. Alex Tabarraok... More»

Here's a quick summary of what Blue Dragon has done since we started helping kids in Vietnam almost 10 years ago... To date, Blue Dragon has:Sent 2,393 kids back to school and training Provided accommodation to 114 girls and boys Served 261,705 meals Built or repaired 52 homes for families Distributed 33,621 litres of... More»

Phil at Itinerant Indigent on the cost of being away from family. “We started this work, because we believed, long before the rest of the world was interested, that Afghanistan could be something more than a byword for misery and hopelessness. And that we could, or should, be part of that healing. (...) Read the... More»

"What we do is not science, it's fiction and journalism." Economic theory, he writes, is fiction (stories, loosely connected to the facts); data analysis is journalism (facts, loosely connected to the stories). Rather than titling the two sections of his book Theory and Evidence, he calls them Economic Fiction and Econometric Journalism, explaining, "If... More»

Ed note: I invited Weh Yeoh of whydev, a friend to AVFTC, to write a post sharing a project that he and his colleague Brendan Rigby started. Have a read. - Tom International development work is often difficult, exhausting, and isolating. Many people who seek to serve and live abroad often become burned out... More»

By Lauren Kervian KONY 2012 epitomizes the extreme evolution of paternalism through a means that is less explicit and even more detrimental to the future of the people it aims to help. The world falls for images that operate under the umbrella of genuineness without inquiry or investigation. Africa, in both documentaries, is seen... More»

I started putting together a list a few months ago for Ryan and Michael, tidied it up last week for Andrea, and am now posting it here as a bookmark for me. Given that Ian kicked out the label "world music", now we just need to figure out what to call it. Note to... More»

Its always nice to have your priors confirmed by some systematic data. Here is Campante and Chor in the Journal of Economic Perspectives with a nice chart showing that Arab countries do generally have higher than average unemployment and more recent growth in education than other countries. They also find some evidence (correlation is... More»

Guest post by Jaclyn Schiff It happens multiple times a day. A nonprofit uploads a video to YouTube hoping to attract some attention for its cause. The result? A few hundred, perhaps even a couple thousand views. But these videos rarely attract much attention from people who aren't already involved with the cause. (...)... More»