Last week, Jean-Marie Baland (who was my colleague while I was on research leave at the University of Namur last year, and who is himself on leave at Harvard this year) was visiting Duke. One of the two talks Jean-Marie gave was about “The Distributional Implications of Group Lending,” in which him and his coauthors show that in most cases, group lending is more beneficial to the middle class than it is to the poor.
Published May 3, 2011
Confirmation Bias in Aid and Development
Tom Murphy, who is one of my favorite development bloggers, had an excellent post last week about development skepticism on the one hand, and lack thereof on the other hand: