Tag Archives: development

Foreign Policy on the Peace Corps

May 13, 2008 – 1:46 pm

Many of the critiques about ineffectuality and an unclear mission in this FP piece could be leveled at any number of development organizations. Today, the Peace Corps remains a Peter Pan organization, afraid to grow up, yet also afraid to question the thinking of its founding fathers. The rush to fulfill John F. Kennedy’s 1960 [...]

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The Herculean task of governing India

March 7, 2008 – 11:31 am

The cover of the Economist this week asks “What’s Holding India Back?” This account of the challenges facing governmental reform is one of the standout pieces, a character study of one of India’s elite public servants that conveys the Herculean nature of the task of running this country. A four-year veteran of the elite Indian [...]

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Unintended consequences: donated mosquito net edition

September 24, 2007 – 1:00 am

Ethan Zuckerman points to a Zambian blogger claiming donated mosquito nets are used by fishermen for destructive drag-netting in rivers and streams. A bit of googling turns up similar stories in Namibia and Rwanda. I wonder if these are marginal cases or if the practice is truly widespread, and if people who pay for mosquito [...]

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