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African Women and American Academics

By Steve Song, on May 28th, 2009

I find myself wondering if I am the only one dismayed by the “mudwrestling” going on among Dambisa Moyo, Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly… and others. In case you haven’t heard, Dambisa Moyo has written a provocative book on the merits of development assistance. Her book, Dead Aid, challenges some of the accepted [...]

The Rationality of Mobile Spending

By Steve Song, on December 29th, 2008

Richard Heeks has written an interesting post entitled Mobiles for Impoverishment in which he says that recent m4d research “suggests mobiles are doing more economic harm than good, and sometimes making poor people poorer”. He points to quantitative and qualitative research that suggest that economic benefits are not being realised by the users of mobile [...]