Monday, January 11, 2010. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Monday, July 20, 2009. Read the rest of the article.

Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Principal-agent problems in the Soviet Union, circa 1990. Widespread fictitious economic accounting was foiling planners to the point that the KGB employed its own spy satellites to ascertain the size of the Uzbek cotton harvest, but the spy agency itself suffered from internal falsifications. From Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. But this stuff still fascinates .

When the Houthis seized Sanaa last fall, I published a collection. Below is an updated collection of useful links and analysis, which may be useful to those trying to make sense of the current stage of Yemens crisis. Stephen Day, Whats behind Yemens recent political turmoil.

Student at Columbia with an interest in Africa. Monday, June 21, 2010. I will then be in the DRC for six months - coming back the end of January 2011. So, because I am back in Africa, I will blog at Coding in the Congo. In the months to come.

Today for me marks four years of post-college work. And others brave through thousand-page manuals of big-donor regulations as a necessary evil. Some of the ubiquitous app competitions so notorious in this region.

Mot de passe oublié? AFRIQUE, Objectif Développement. Agence Française de Développement AFD. Le Blog de Alex Thurston. Le Blog de Chris Blattman. Le Blog de David Kpelly. Le Blog de François Soudan. Le Blog de Jerome Martin.

Friday, January 30, 2015. Goat Cheese Paradise - Shvil Izim. According to Alon, he needs about 400 goats to have a herd that is economically viable. With only 40, the farm relies on people like us who are willing to pay a premium to try excellent cheese right at its source. Alon then picked five goats and brought them up to the milking platform. The farm has a mechanized milking machine made by Afimilk t.

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