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Is your development agency Conan or Saruman?

[Original post from 24/3/2014. Reposted for fun factor]

The journal Development Policy Review will publish in May my article on the types of aid donors and their impact on institutional change. It will have been a little over two years since I first presented the argument at the Midwest Political Science Association with the help of Conan of Cimmeria, Saruman the White, the Black Knight, and the criminal genius Vizzini.

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Is foreign aid more like Superman or Batman?

Whenever I am in writing mode my mind makes strange leaps to justify a connection between work and fun. Take these two things: my fondness for DC Comics superheroes, and my work in international development. And here’s the leap: in this (recycled) post I argue – in a totally unscientific manner – that the international development community can reflect on its own potential and shortcomings through the lens of super-powered humans. Let me tell you how it works.

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“Chewie, we’re home”

32 years later…

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Movies Pop culture

Let me tell you about my boat

Who wouldn’t want to conduct field research from aboard the Belafonte…

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Gaming Pop culture

Gilrs can play Dungeons & Dragons too

Via BoingBoing.

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Development Pop culture

Public sector reform, Asterix style

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Boardgames

More info: Shut Up & Sit Down.