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
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead: Some Personal Reflections
I moved to the US in August of 2001 for graduate school at Cornell.
On a sunny Tuesday morning a few weeks later, after a hike up Cascadilla Gorge to get to campus from our house in downtown Ithaca, my roommate and I were told that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. A few minutes later, we heard about the second plane.