Monthly Archives: March 2010

The return of the “missing middle” – A response to David Roodman

There are lots of problems with development assistance. One of them is that people like me don’t really know what we’re doing, but pretend that we do. Or more specifically, that we rarely make explicit why we think that what … Continue reading

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Not-Bob: Ethiopia on the BBC

I’m not going to comment on the recent stories about the possible diversion of aid to Ethiopia in the 1980s to buy arms, but readers might want to have a listen to three recent pieces about the country, and the … Continue reading

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Amanda in Addis and Adventures Up North

Amanda’s now back in the UK, recovering from our adventures in Ethiopia. For her first week, I was working but we managed to see quite a bit of Addis together, and then she was ably escorted by my taxi-driver-cum-friend Teddy.

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Photos from Amanda’s visit

I’ll blog about our adventures soon, but for the moment the pictures are available here

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