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Journalists, researchers and mental health professionals offer advice on how to deal with people caught up in tragic events.
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Graduate school & the development industry « Rachel Strohm
(Update, 8 January: Hi MR readers ! Thanks for stopping by; I’d welcome your thoughts. I should add that this post isn’t meant exclusively as a critique of SAIS, but as a representative experience of many of the schools that offer MAs in development.)
O ne of the most peculiar, and least understood, features of the Washington policy process is the extraordinary dependence of policymakers on the work of think tanks. Most Americans — even most of those who follow politics closely — would probably struggle to name a think tank or to explain precisely what a think tank does.
Devaluing the Think Tank > Publications > National Affairs
Notes from the field: the usefulness of early workshops | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
One of the things I learned from other folks at the Bank I work with is the usefulness of doing a workshop early in the early design of an impact evaluation to bring the project and the impact evaluation team together to hammer out design.
If you are like most people working with quantitative data in development, getting too many statistically significant results is probably not your most pressing problem. On the contrary, if you are lucky enough to find a star, whether it's of the 1%, 5% or 10% type, there are plenty of star-killers to choose from.
What can we learn from medicine: Three mistakes to avoid when designing a trial registry – Guest Post by Ole Dahl Rasmussen | News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
The current issue of Bidoun magazine features a very timely conversation with Egyptian feminist Nawal el Saadawi.
“We were colonized, and that is why we are funny”
The Particular Believer | Bidoun Projects
A conversation with Nawal El Saadawi, activist, feminist, writer, doctor. She is the author of forty-seven books, including Women and Sex , Memoirs From the Women’s Prison , and God Dies by the Nile .Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for self-reflection.
The Soft Side of Imperialism
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Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.Who is Dr. Kurtz?
It's been a while this "electronic newsletter" going - so long that I have lost count of all the interns that passed through and learned the ropes under my visionary leadership. I have also had my share of constructive feedback, which I duly "actionized" using the appropuiate tool-kit, in order to become a better person:Udaipur Info
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