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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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Pythodology: Flawless logical reasoning

Causal inference at its best:

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Pythodology: Experiments

It’s not J-PAL, but it is still one of the greatest examples of social science methodology: