This week’s NEP Development listserv had an interesting new working paper by Amelie F. Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien on whether an African leader’s foreign education means that his country receives more FDI:
Published January 9, 2011
Category: Development
Published January 6, 2011
Microfinance: The Silver Lining
Jonathan Morduch, who knows a thing or two about microfinance, has some good news about microfinance in a recent post. Because the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aimed at evaluating microfinance are designed to test a narrower set of hypotheses than medical RCTs, microfinance research is not as bad as medical research: